Mapos Buang language

Mapos
	Central Buang
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Morobe Province
Native speakers	10,500 (2000)[1]; 30% monolingual (2000?)[2]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea ? Ngero–Vitiaz ? Huon Gulf South Huon Gulf Hote–Buang Buang Mapos; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bzh
Glottolog	mapo1242[3]

Mapos Buang, also known as Mapos or Central Buang, is an Oceanic language in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Mapos Buang has a larger sound inventory than is typical of most Austronesian languages. Notable is the existence of a phonemic uvular nasal, and a distinction between a voiced bilabial fricative and a bilabial approximant (although the approximant can be analyzed phonologically as labio-velar).

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i(ː)		u(ː)
Mid	e(ː)	(ə)*	o(ː)
Low	ɛ(ː)	a(ː)	ɔ(ː)

* [ə] is a prominent feature of Buang phonology, but is not contrastive.

Consonants

	Bilabial	Coronal	Palatal	Velar	Labio -velar	Uvular
Nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋ	ŋʷ	ɴ
(prenasalized) Occlusive	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿdʒ	ᵑɡ	ᵑɡʷ	ᶰɢ
(prenasalized) Occlusive	p	t	tʃ	k	kʷ	q
Continuant	β	l̪	j	ɣ	w*	ʁ
Liquid		l~ɽ

*/w/ is a bilabial approximant or semivowel with no co-articulated velar component. It is placed in the labio-velar series of the chart as it fills a gap in this position. /β/ is a voiced bilabial fricative.

References

↑ Mapos at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Mapos Buang language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mapos Buang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

External links

Mapos Buang dictionary (with phonology and grammar)

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[e18-1] Mapos at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[e15-2] Mapos Buang language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)

[Glottolog-3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mapos Buang". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.