Wogamusin language

Wogamusin
Wogamusin
Region	Ambunti District, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (4 villages)
Native speakers	(700 cited 1998)
Language family	Sepik Middle Sepik Wogamusin Wogamusin; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wog
Glottolog	woga1249
ELP	Wogamusin
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Wogamusin is a Papuan language found in four villages in the Ambunti District of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. It was spoken by about 700 people in 1998.^[2]

Phonology

Vowels^[3]
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a

In non-final positions, /u/ /o/, /i/, and /e/ are [ʊ] [ɔ], [ɪ], and [ɛ], respectively. [ə] appears only in unstressed syllables; when it is followed by /w/ it is rounded: [ɵu̯].^[3]

Consonants^[3]
		Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	Voiceless	p	t		k
	Voiced	b	d		ɡ
	Voiced prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd		ᵑɡ
Fricative			s		h
Flap			ɺ
Semivowel				j	w

Between vowels, /b/ and /ɡ/ lenite to the fricatives [β] and [ɣ], respectively. /s/ is realized as an affricate, [ts], word-initially. /h/ is velar, [x], after /a/ and /o/. Word-finally, voiceless stops are usually unreleased.^[3]

Phonotactics

The consonant /ŋ/ only occurs finally. Bilabial and velar consonants may be followed by /w/ when initial, but otherwise consonant clusters only occur over syllable boundaries, with the exception of the unusual word /məmt/ ('snake').^[4]

Pronouns

Wogamusin pronouns:^[5]^: 279

	sg	du	pl
1	nay	nond	non
2	ni	noh	nom
3m	ye	yoh	yor
3f	yo

External links

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

Notes

^ Wogamusin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Ethnologue.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Laycock (1965:114)
^ Laycock (1965:114)
^ Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.

References

Laycock, D.C. (1965), "Three Upper Sepik phonologies", Oceanic Linguistics, 4 (1/2): 113–118, doi:10.2307/3622917

[e18-1] Wogamusin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[ethn-2] Ethnologue.

[harvcoltxt|Laycock|1965|p=114-3] Laycock (1965:114)

[4] Laycock (1965:114)

[Foley-Sepik-5] Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.

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