Fore language
Appearance
Fore | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Goroka District, Eastern Highlands Province |
Ethnicity | Fore |
Native speakers | (17,000 cited 1991)[1] |
Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | for |
Glottolog | fore1270 |
Fore or Foré /ˈfɔːreɪ/[2] is a Kainantu-Goroka language spoken in the Goroka District of Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
The consonants of Fore are as follows:[3]
Bilabial | Dental/Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Stops | Plain | p | t̪ | k | ʔ | |
Prenasalized | mp | n̪t̪~nt | ŋk | |||
Nasals | m | n̪~n | ||||
Fricative | s̪~s | |||||
Approximants | w | j |
All the dental consonants can vary to alveolar, except /t̪/ which is always dental. /p/, /t̪/, and /k/ are pronounced as /b/, /ɾ/, and /g/ between vowels. Velar consonants are labialized after rounded vowels. /j/ is often pronounced as a fricative /ʝ/.
Fore has six vowels:
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | eː | ʌ | oː |
Open | aː |
It also has four diphthongs: ae, ao, ai, and au.
Fore has a pitch accent system. Each syllable is either accented or unaccented. Multiple accented syllables can occur in the same word, but they cannot be adjacent to each other.
External links
- Paradisec includes collections with Fore language materials
References
- ^ Fore at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
- ^ Graham Scott. 1977. The Fore Language of Papua New Guinea. (Doctoral dissertation, Australian National University; xvi+244pp.)