Ese, or Managalasi, is a language of
Oro Province
Oro Province, formerly (and officially still) Northern Province, is a coastal province of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital is Popondetta. The province covers 22,800 km2, and has 176,206 inhabitants (2011 census). The province share ...
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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 ...
. Dialects are Muaturaina, Chimona, Dea, Akabafa, Nami, Mesari, Averi, Afore, Minjori, Oko, Wakue, Numba, Jimuni, Karira. Perhaps 40% of speakers are monolingual.
It is spoken in the Kawawoki Mission area of
Popondetta
Popondetta (sometimes spelled Popondota) is the capital of Oro (Northern) Province in Papua New Guinea. Popondetta is a city.
In 1951 the city became the focus of relief efforts after nearby Mount Lamington erupted and killed 4,000 people.
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Phonology
Consonants
* Allophones of phonemes /β, tɕ, dʑ, ɾ/ exist as
, ts, ɖʐ, ɺ
The comma is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in different languages. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark () in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline ...
Vowels
* A central vowel sound
�can be heard as a result of /i/ preceding /u/.
* Allophones of /e, a, o/, exist as
� ə ɔ
* A semivowel sound
occurs when /u/ precedes a stressed vowel.
Further reading
*Parlier, James. 1970. ''Managalasi sentences''. Manuscript. Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG.
*Parlier, Judith and James Parlier. 1981. ''Managalasi Dictionary''. Ukarumpa: SIL-PNG.
References
Languages of Papua New Guinea
Koiarian languages
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