Tungag language
| Tungag | |
|---|---|
| Lavongai | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | New Hanover Island, New Ireland Province |
Native speakers | (12,000 cited 1990)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | lcm |
| Glottolog | tung1290 |
Tungag, or Lavongai, is an Austronesian language of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
Phoneme inventory of the Tungag language:[2]
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless/tense | p pː | t tː | k kː |
| voiced/tense | b | d | g ɡː | |
| Nasal | m mː | n nː | ŋ ŋː | |
| Rhotic | r | |||
| Fricative | voiceless/tense | ɸ | s sː | (x, ɣ) |
| voiced | β, v | |||
| Lateral | l lː | |||
/x, ɣ/ are allophones of /k, ɡ/.
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | ɛ | ʌ | ɔ |
| Low | ɑ | ||
References
- ^ Tungag at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Karin E. Fast. 2015. Spatial language in Tungag. (Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia, 4.) Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.
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