Mwakai language
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| Mongol | |
|---|---|
| Mwakai | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | East Sepik Province |
Native speakers | 340 (2003)[1] |
Ramu–Keram
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mgt |
| Glottolog | mong1344 |
| ELP | Mongol-Kaimba |
| Coordinates: 4°15′44″S 143°55′03″E / 4.262293°S 143.917638°E | |
Mongol, also known as Mwakai, is a Keram language of Papua New Guinea. Despite the name, it is not related to Mongolian, which is spoken in East Asia.
It is spoken in Mongol village (4°15′44″S 143°55′03″E / 4.262293°S 143.917638°E), Keram Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.[2][3]
Phonology
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palato- Alveolar |
Velar | Labio- Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | kʷ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | ɡʷ | ||
| ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | ||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | |||
| voiced | z | ʒ | ||||
| ejective | sʼ | ʃʼ | ||||
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |||
| Near-high | ɪ | ʊ | |||
| Mid-high | e | o | |||
| Mid-low | ɛ | ɔ | |||
| Low | ä |
References
- ^ Mongol 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.
Further reading
- Barlow, Russell (2020). Notes on Mwakai, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 38: 37-99. ISSN 0023-1959