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One
Aunalei
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionWest Wapei Rural LLG, Sandaun Province
Native speakers
4,500 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
onr – Northern
oin – Inebu
aun – Molmo
onk – Kabore
okk – Kwamtim
osu – Southern
qaz One
Glottologonee1245
ELPOne

One (also known as Onele and Aunalei)[2] is a Torricelli dialect cluster of West Wapei Rural LLG in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.[3]

Languages

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Glottolog 4.0 lists the following One varieties as separate languages:

  • Southern One
  • Kwamtim One
  • Central-Northern One
    • Inebu
    • Kabore
    • Molmo
    • Northern One

A detailed dialectology of One is described in Crowther (2001).[4]

The One dialects are spoken in the following villages and wards of West Wapei Rural LLG, Sandaun Province.[3][5]

Phonology

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Molmo One consonants are:[6]

m n
p t k
f s
w l j
r

Molmo One vowels are:[6]

i ɨ u
e o
ɛ a ɔ

Pronouns

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Molmo One pronouns:[6]: 334 

sg du pl
1incl mimpla ~ fimpla mine
1excl i mumpla ~ fumpla mo
2 (y)ine ~ yo pimpla pine ~ po
3 wine ~ wo numpla nine ~ no

Nouns

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Molmo One nominal plural formatives include:[6]

gloss singular plural
‘woman’ pino pini
‘wife’ puli pulpi
‘flower’ sula sulu
‘lizard’ saunina saune
‘mosquito’ unkun unkle
‘thorn’ neni nenine

Further reading

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  • Donohue, Mark P. n.d. Lexical categories, complexity and the configurationality split in One. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Linguistics, Monash University.

References

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  1. ^ Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Inebu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Molmo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Kabore at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Kwamtim at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Southern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ "OLAC resources in and about the Molmo One language". www.language-archives.org. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  3. ^ a b 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.
  4. ^ Crowther, Melissa. 2001. All the One language(s): comparing linguistic and ethnographic definitions of language in New Guinea. MA thesis, University of Sydney.
  5. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  6. ^ a b c d Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". 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. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.