Nengone language
| Nengone | |
|---|---|
| Native to | New Caledonia |
| Region | Maré Island |
Native speakers | 8,700 (2009 census)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
nen |
| Glottolog |
neng1238[2] |
Nengone is a language of the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia.
Phonology
Phonological inventory of the Nengone language:[3]
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | ʈ | k | ʔ | ||
| voiced | b | d | ɖ | g | ||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | ||||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | |||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | (f) | θ | s | ʃ | (x) | h | |
| voiced | z | ɣ | ||||||
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ŋ̊ | ||||
| voiced | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||||
| Approximant | voiceless | w̥ | ||||||
| voiced | w | ɭ | j | |||||
Phonemes in parentheses only occur in words borrowed from other languages.[3]
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| ɛ | ɔ | |
| Low | a | |
References
- ↑ Nengone at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nengone". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- 1 2 Tryon, Darrell T. 1967. Nengone Grammar
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