Amanab language
| Amanab | |
|---|---|
| Region | Amanab District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 4,400 (2003)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
amn |
| Glottolog |
aman1265[2] |
Amanab is a Papuan language spoken by 4,400 people in Amanab District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | ɛ | ɔ |
| Low | ɑ | |
Consonants
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ||
| Plosive | prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ |
| voiceless | p | t | k | |
| Fricative | ɸ | s | h | |
| voiced | ɣ | |||
| Approximant/Flap | w | l~ɾ | j | |
References
- ↑ Amanab at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Amanab". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Minch, Andrew (1992). "Amanab grammar essentials". In John R. Roberts. Namia and Amanab grammar essentials. Data Papers on Papua New Guinea Languages, 39. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 99–173.
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