Wogamusin is a

Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...

found in four villages in the Ambunti District of

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. It was spoken by about 700 people in 1998.Ethnologue.

Phonology

In non-final positions, , , and are , , and , respectively. appears only in unstressed syllables; when it is followed by it is rounded: . Between vowels, and lenite to the

fricatives A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together. These may be the lower lip against the upper teeth, in the case of ; the back of the tongue against the soft palate in t ...

and , respectively. is realized as an

affricate An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal). It is often difficult to decide if a stop and fricative form a single phoneme or a consonant pai ...

, , word-initially. is

velar Velar may refer to: * Velar consonant Velar consonants are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum"). Since the velar region ...

, , after and . Word-finally, voiceless stops are usually unreleased.

Phonotactics

The consonant only occurs finally. Bilabial and velar consonants may be followed by when initial, but otherwise consonant clusters only occur over syllable boundaries, with the exception of the unusual word ('snake').

Pronouns

Wogamusin pronouns: :

External links

* Paradisec has an open access collection from Theodore Schwartz that include
Wogamusin language materials

Notes

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wogamusin Language Wogamus languages Languages of East Sepik Province