Summary
Mapos Buang, also known as Mapos or Central Buang, is an Oceanic language in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
| Mapos | |
|---|---|
| Central Buang | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Morobe Province |
Native speakers | 7,000 (2001)[1] 1,400 monolinguals (2001)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bzh |
| Glottolog | mapo1242 |
Phonology edit
Mapos Buang has a larger sound inventory than is typical of most Austronesian languages.[citation needed] Notable is the existence of a phonemic contrast between a velar nasal and a uvular nasal, which is extremely rare among the world's languages. Along with this, its phonology is unusually symmetrical compared to most other languages.
Vowels edit
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i(ː) | u(ː) | |
| Mid | e(ː) ⟨ë⟩ | ə* ⟨e⟩ | o(ː) |
| Low | ɛ(ː) ⟨e⟩ | a(ː) | ɔ(ː) ⟨ö⟩ |
* [ə] is a prominent feature of Buang phonology, but is not contrastive. Thus both it and [e] are represented with ⟨e⟩.
Vowel length is shown in the orthography by doubling the letter.[2]
Consonants edit
| Bilabial | Coronal | Post-alv./ Palatal |
Velar | Labio- velar |
Uvular | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ ⟨ny⟩ | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | ŋʷ ⟨ngw⟩ | ɴ ⟨nġ⟩ |
| (prenasalized) Occlusive |
ᵐb ⟨b⟩ | ⁿd ⟨d⟩ | ⁿdʒ ⟨j⟩ | ᵑɡ ⟨g⟩ | ᵑɡʷ ⟨gw⟩ | ᶰɢ ⟨ġ⟩ |
| p | t | tʃ ⟨s⟩ | k | kʷ ⟨kw⟩ | q ⟨ḳ⟩ | |
| Continuant | β ⟨v⟩ | l̪ ⟨l⟩ | j ⟨y⟩ | ɣ ⟨gg⟩ | w* | ʁ ⟨h⟩ |
| Liquid | l~ɽ |
*/w/ is a bilabial approximant or semivowel with no co-articulated velar component. It is placed in the labio-velar series of the chart as it fills a gap in this position. /β/ is a voiced bilabial fricative.
Orthography is the same as in the IPA when nothing is shown.
References edit
- ^ a b Mapos at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "Mapos Buang dictionary". SIL International. 2022-09-15. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
External links edit
- Mapos Buang dictionary (with phonology and grammar)