Yonggom is one of the
Ok languages
The Ok languages are a family of about a dozen related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in a contiguous area of eastern Irian Jaya and western Papua New Guinea. The most numerous language is Ngalum, with some 20,000 speakers; the best known i ...
of
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian Ocean, Indian and Pacific Ocean, Pacific oceans. Comprising over List of islands of Indonesia, 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, ...
and
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that comprises the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean n ...
. According to its speakers, it is part of a continuum of 9 mutually intelligible dialects of
Muyu language
Muyu, Moyu,Zahrer, Alexander. 2019. ''First data of Moyu, a lowland Ok language of New Guinea''. 11th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics ConferenceAPLL11, 13-15 June 2019, Leiden University. is one of the Ok language ...
s which also includes Muyu, North Muyu (Kadi), South Muyu, and
Ningrum.
[Zahrer, Alexander. 2019. ''First data of Moyu, a lowland Ok language of New Guinea''. 11th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference]
APLL11
, 13-15 Juni 2019, Universitas Leiden. Petabahasa by
Indonesian Ministry of Education classified this language as ''Yonggom/Yongkom''
(BPS:1158 6) spoken in Kampung Ninati,
although another name recorded for ''South Muyu''
(BPS:0917 2) is ''Yongon''.
Phonology
Consonants
* /b, d/ can become fricatives
², ðintervocalically in fast speech.
* /k/ can be heard as a fricative
£in fast speech.
* /ɾ/ becomes
in word-initial position.
* /j/ is heard as an affricate
Ê’when following a plosive.
Vowels
* /i/ becomes
ªwhen before /s/ or a word-final /n/.
* /É›/ becomes more close as
when before a sonorant back consonant.
References
External links
*
Paradisec has an open access collection tha
includes Yonggom language materials
Languages of Western Province (Papua New Guinea)
Ok languages
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