Wogeo Language
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Wogeo (Vokeo) is an Austronesian language of northeast
New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands by area, world's second-largest island, with an area of . Located in Melanesia in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, the island is ...
. It is spoken on Koil and Vokeo islands of Wewak Islands Rural LLG.


Morphophonology


Consonants


Vowels

Words in Wogeo have lexical stress—it creates both lexical and grammatical distinctions, primarily realized through lengthening and changing the quality of the stressed vowel. The accent can be on the penultimate or ultimate syllable, with the penultimate accent considered unmarked. Compare ''lima'' ɫ̺ɪːmɐʔ‘hand’ with ''limá'' ̺ɪˈmaʔ‘his/her hand’. Vowel assimilation in Wogeo occurs mainly within word forms, with total or partial assimilation of tongue height. Elisions of vowels are morphologically and somewhat lexically determined. Verbal reduplication in Wogeo expresses imperfective aspect and can take different forms depending on the phonological structure of the verb. Adjectival reduplication in Wogeo is a common phenomenon, with reduplicated adjectives being more prevalent than non-reduplicated ones. There are also traces of an older adjectival reduplication pattern in certain lexemes, where the reduplication is fully lexicalized, and no longer recognized as such by speakers. Reduplicated nouns are less common than reduplicated adjectives or verbs, and they serve either to denote 'affiliation/similarity' or to express 'continuous/discrete plurality'. Some proper names also show traces of old reduplication processes.


Sources


References

*Exter, Mats, (2003) ''Phonetik und Phonologie des Wogeo.'' Arbeitspapier (Universität zu Köln. Institut für Sprachwissenschaft); Nr. 46


External links

* Word lists for Wogeo included in the
Robert Blust Robert A. Blust (; zh, c=白樂思, p=Bái Lèsī; May 9, 1940 – January 5, 2022) was an American linguist who worked in several areas, including historical linguistics, lexicography and ethnology. He was Professor of Linguistics at the Uni ...
collection in the
Kaipuleohone Kaipuleohone is a digital ethnographic archive that houses audio and visual files, photographs, as well as hundreds of textual material such as notes, dictionaries, and transcriptions relating to small and endangered languages. The archive is stored ...
archive Schouten languages Languages of East Sepik Province {{NNGuinea-lang-stub