Yopno language
Yopno (Yupna, after the Yupna Valley) is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Kewieng, Nokopo, Wandabong, Isan. Yupno speakers orient themselves using local topography.[3]
| Yopno | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Madang, Morobe Provinces |
Native speakers | 9,000 (2010)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | yut |
| Glottolog | yopn1238[2] |
Phonology
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t̪ | k | ||
| voiced | b | d̪ | g | |||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Approximant | l̪ | j | ||||
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gollark: Did some country do something stupid again?
gollark: Most drugs seem to have some sort of terrible reasonably-unlikely-but-there and/or long-term effect.
gollark: No comment.
gollark: I end up just not being able to get to sleep for ages coronavirus or not. It's very annoying.
References
- Yopno at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Yopno". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "These People Have a Mind-Bending Way to Navigate". 2016-04-13. Retrieved 2018-06-20.
- Reed, Wes (2000). "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). SIL. Retrieved 2018-07-23.
Further reading
- Reed, Wes (2000). "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF). Cite journal requires
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