Taulil language
| Taulil | |
|---|---|
| Region | New Britain |
Native speakers | 2,000 (2012)[1] |
East New Britain
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tuh |
| Glottolog | taul1251 |
| ELP | Taulil |
Taulil is a Papuan language spoken in East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
It is spoken in Kadaulung village of (4°27′09″S 152°07′06″E / 4.452603°S 152.118398°E) of Inland Baining Rural LLG, and in Taulil 1 (4°24′48″S 152°05′32″E / 4.413301°S 152.092147°E) and Taulil 2 (4°25′12″S 152°05′15″E / 4.419937°S 152.087372°E) villages of Vunadidir-Toma Rural LLG.[2][3]
Butam (now extinct) is related. Like the Butam, the Taulil people trace their ancestry to New Ireland.[4]
Phonology
Taulil consonants:[4]
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Plosive (voiceless) p t k Plosive (voiced) b d ɡ Nasal m n ŋ Tap/Flap ɾ Fricative β Approximant j Lateral Approximant l
Vocabulary
The following basic vocabulary words are from SIL field notes, as cited in the Trans-New Guinea database:[5]
gloss Taulil head 'ulun hair 'dɔmɔn ear ul-tʌŋʌn eye 'kɔlmʌřɩn nose 'bulsun tooth 'lɩgim; lɩkɩn tongue ul-kɛmɛn leg fʌn louse huᵗ dog luf pig bui bird sɩgʌʔ egg 'kʰɔřɔl blood dɛh bone 'suhnʌ 'kunʌ skin pʰʌlkⁿeⁱn; pʰʌlɩn breast susun tree waⁱ man bʌᵏ; taⁱ woman lʌᵘ sun wʌsuʔ moon 'kɛᵐbɛn water 'mʌlum fire yʌf stone fʌᵗ road, path ŋas name 'wɔᵘsɩn eat ŋʌnɩʔ; nʌm one ikʌᵘ; kaᵘkʌʔ two 'daU; iⁿdʌᵘ
References
- ^ Taulil at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
- ^ a b Stebbins, Tonya; Evans, Bethwyn; Terrill, Angela (2018). "The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia". 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. 775–894. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- ^ Greenhill, Simon (2016). "TransNewGuinea.org - database of the languages of New Guinea". Retrieved 2020-11-05.
- Meng, Chenxi (2018). A grammar of Tulil (Ph.D. thesis). La Trobe University. hdl:1959.9/565684.
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