Enga language
Enga | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Enga Province |
Native speakers | 230,000 (2000 census)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Latin script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
enq |
Glottolog |
enga1252 [2] |
Enga is a language of the East New Guinea Highlands spoken by a quarter-million people in Enga Province, Papua New Guinea. It has the largest number of speakers of any native language in New Guinea, and is second over all after Papuan Malay.
Arafundi-Enga Pidgin | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Enga Province |
Native speakers | None |
Enga-based pidgin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
None (mis ) |
Glottolog |
araf1245 [3] |
An Enga-based pidgin is used by speakers of Arafundi languages.
Phonology
Vowel sounds include /i e ɑ o u/.
Bilabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | ||
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Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
Affricate | voiceless | ts ~ s | ||||
prenasalized | ⁿd͡z | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
Approximant | plain | ɽ | j | w | ||
lateral | ʎ |
A /k/ can range to sounding like a fricative between low and back vowels. /t/ is pronounced as an /r/ sound intervocalically. /ts/ may also be realised as [s] . All final vowels are devoiced. Alveolar stops /t, ⁿd/ may be realised as retroflex sounds /ʈ, ᶯɖ/.[4][5]
References
- ↑ Enga at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Enga". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Arafundi-Enga Pidgin". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Organised Phonology Data: Enga Language [ENQ] Enga Province (PDF).
- ↑ Hintze, O. C. (1975). A phonemic statement of Mai Enga. pp. 145–185.
External links
- Phonology of Enga
- A collection of open access recordings of Enga archived with Kaipuleohone.
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