Kwomtari is the eponymous language of the Kwomtari family of Papua New Guinea. Spencer (2008) is a short grammar of Kwomtari. The language has an SOV constituent order and nominative–accusative alignment. Both subjects and objects are marked suffixally on the verb. Verbs are inflected for status (mood) rather than for tense or aspect.

Locations

Ethnologue lists Kwomtari as spoken in six villages in Komtari (Kwomtari) ward (), Amanab Rural LLG, Sandaun Province. Baron (2007) lists Kwomtari-speaking villages as Mango, Kwomtari, Baiberi, Yenabi, Yau'uri, and Wagroni.

Phonology

The phoneme is realized as a voiced bilabial fricative intervocalically and voiceless bilabial fricative elsewhere. The realization of the phoneme is in free variation between a voiced retroflex lateral and a voiced retroflex stop . The unusual vowel phonemes and are of intermediate height between cardinal and respectively but without the centralization present in and . They have also been attested in Weri, a Goilalan language of south-east Papua, and certain Dani dialects.Foley (1986:54)

References

External links

Kwomtari phonology, word examples and text example
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea Languages of Sandaun Province Kwomtari–Nai languages