Hauna pidgin |
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Region | East Sepik Province |
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Native speakers | None |
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Language family | Iwam-based pidgin |
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Language codes |
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ISO 639-3 | None (mis ) |
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Glottolog | haun1238 |
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Sepik Iwam, or Yawenian, is a language of Papua New Guinea. It is the lexical basis of the Hauna trade pidgin.
It is spoken in villages such as Iniok (4°17′28″S 142°00′36″E / 4.291°S 142.01°E / -4.291; 142.01 (Iniok)) in Tunap/Hunstein Rural LLG of East Sepik Province.[2][3]
Phonology
Consonants[4] | Labial | Alveolar | Velar | Glottal |
Nasal | m | n | | |
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | |
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |
Fricative | | s | | h |
Liquid | | r | | |
Semivowel | w | j | | |
Vowels[4] | Front | Central | Back |
Close | i | | u |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Open | | a | |
Pronouns
Sepik Iwam pronouns:[4]: 282
| singular | dual | plural |
1st person | ka | kərar | kəram |
2nd person | kə | kow | kom |
3rd person | masculine | si | sow | səm |
feminine | sa |
Grammar
Sepik Iwam subject agreement suffixes are:[4]
| singular | dual | plural |
masculine | *-ən | *-o | *-əm |
feminine | *-a |
The structure of this subject agreement paradigm can be traced back to Proto-Sepik, although the morphemes themselves do not seem to be directly related to the reconstructed Proto-Sepik forms. (See also Sepik languages#Gender.)
Like May River Iwam, Sepik Iwam has periodic tense, for instance the matutinal -iyakwok[5][6].
References
- ^ Sepik Iwam 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Jacques, Guillaume (2023). "Periodic tense markers in the world's languages and their sources". Folia Linguistica. 57 (3): 539–562. doi:10.1515/flin-2023-2013.
- ^ Foley (2018:284)
Further reading
- "Organised Phonology Data" (PDF).
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