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Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea
Kilivila | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Trobriand Islands |
Native speakers | 20,000 (2000)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | kij |
Glottolog | kili1267 |
Kilivila (Kiriwina) is one of the Kilivila–Louisiades languages (of the Austronesian language family), spoken by the Trobriand people of the Trobriand Islands (Papua New Guinea).[2] It is used in local schools.
Phonology
[edit]Phonology of Kilivila:[3]
Consonants
[edit]Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
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plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||||
Plosive | voiceless | p | pʷ | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | |
voiced | b | bʷ | d | ɡ | ɡʷ | |||
Nasal | m | mʷ | n | |||||
Fricative | v | s | ||||||
Rhotic | ɾ | |||||||
Approximant | l | j | w |
Vowels
[edit]Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Low | a |
Allophones
[edit]Allophone | |
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/k/ | [k̠], [x̠], [k], [x] |
/kʷ/ | [kʷ], [k̠ʷ] |
/s/ | [s], [ʃ] |
/m/ | [m], [m̩] |
/ɾ/ | [ɾ], [r], [ʀ] |
/i/ | [i], [ɨ] |
/u/ | [u], [ʊ] |
References
[edit]- ^ Kilivila at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Senft, Gunter; Senft, Professor of Linguistics Cognitive Anthropology Research Group Gunter; Levinson, Stephen C. (2000). Systems of Nominal Classification. Cambridge University Press. p. 42. ISBN 9780521770750. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
- ^ Senft, Gunter (1986). Kilivila: The Language of the Trobriand Islanders. Mouton Grammar Library, 3: Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
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External links
[edit]- A number of collections in Paradisec include materials in Kilivila
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