Goliath language
| Una | |
|---|---|
| Goliath | |
| Region | West Papua |
Native speakers | 5,600 (2006)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mtg |
| Glottolog | unaa1239 |
Una, better known as Goliath, is a Papuan language of West Papua.
Dialects are (Western) Una, Bomela, Tanime, Eastern Sela, Kinome. Eastern Una is closer to Ketengban.
It is one of the 3 languages to lack both /p/ and /g/.[2]
References
- John Louwerse, 1988, The morphosyntax of Una in relation to discourse structure
- ^ Una at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ http://wals.info/valuesets/5A-una