Yonggom is one of the
Ok languages
The Ok languages are a family of about a dozen related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in a contiguous area of eastern Irian Jaya and western Papua New Guinea. The most numerous language is Ngalum, with some 20,000 speakers; the best known i ...
of
West Papua and
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
. It is very close to
North Muyu, which is also called 'Yonggom'.
Phonology
Consonants
* /b, d/ can become fricatives
², ðintervocalically in fast speech.
* /k/ can be heard as a fricative
£in fast speech.
* /ɾ/ becomes
in word-initial position.
* /j/ is heard as an affricate
Ê’when following a plosive.
Vowels
* /i/ becomes
ªwhen before /s/ or a word-final /n/.
* /É›/ becomes more close as
when before a sonorant back consonant.
References
External links
*
Paradisec
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel- ...
has an open access collection tha
includes Yonggom language materials
Languages of Western Province (Papua New Guinea)
Ok languages
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