Finongan is one of the
Finisterre languages
The Finisterre languages are a language family, spoken in the Finisterre Range of Papua New Guinea, classified within the original Trans–New Guinea languages, Trans–New Guinea (TNG) proposal, and William A. Foley considers their TNG ident ...
of
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
.
Names
The alternate names for Finongan are Finungwa and Finungwan.
Phonology
The phonology of Finongan is as follows:
[Rice, Chris and Amy Rice. 2002. ''Finongan organised phonology data''. Manuscript. SIL.]
- The voiceless labial, coronal, and non-labialized velar stops 'p', 't', and 'k' are all unreleased syllable-finally
- In multisyllabic words, 'i' is pronounced preceding another 'i'
- Several diphthongs can occur over syllable breaks
References
Finisterre languages
Languages of Morobe Province
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