Yagwoia (Yeghuye), or ''Kokwaiyakwa'', is an Angan language of

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 named after the five ethnicities, ''Iwalaqamalje, Hiqwaye, Hiqwase, Gwase, Heqwangilye'' (''Yeqwangilje'' dialect).

Distribution

Yagwoia is spoken in: * Eastern Highlands Province: Iqwalaqamalje *

Gulf Province A gulf is a large inlet from the ocean into the landmass, typically with a narrower opening than a bay, but that is not observable in all geographic areas so named. The term gulf was traditionally used for large highly-indented navigable bodie ...

: Gwase *

Morobe Province Morobe Province is a province on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital and largest city is Lae. The province covers 33,705 km2, with a population of 674,810 (2011 census), and since the division of Southern Highlands P ...

: Hiqwase, Hiqwaye, and Yeqwangilje

Phonology

* /p t k/ tend to become voiced d gin clusters with nasals or /l/. * /m n ŋ l/ can be syllabic. * /s/ is in free variation with Older speakers tend to pronounce it as s~dz * /t/ can often be heard as * /ɨ/ is rare. Additionally, the following diphthongs have been observed: /ei/, /ai/, /ae/, /au/, /ou/. Yagwoia is tonal, distinguishing high and low tone. However, tone has a low functional load, and so remains unwritten.

External links

Paradisec The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel-to ...

have an open access collection o
Yagwoia recordings.
They also have a collection of Jadran Mimicabr>recordings that contain some Yagwoia

References

Angan languages Languages of Morobe Province Languages of Gulf Province Languages of Eastern Highlands Province {{papuan-lang-stub