Tungag language

Tungag
Lavongai
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region New Hanover Island, New Ireland Province
Native speakers
 (12,000 cited 1990)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 lcm
Glottolog tung1290[2]

Tungag, or Lavongai, is an Austronesian language of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Phoneme inventory of the Tungag language:[3]

Consonant sounds
Labial Alveolar Velar
Plosive voiceless/tense p pː t tː k kː
voiced/tense b d g ɡː
Nasal m mː n nː ŋ ŋː
Rhotic r
Fricative voiceless/tense ɸ s sː (x, ɣ)
voiced β, v
Lateral l lː

/x, ɣ/ are allophones of /k, ɡ/.

Vowel sounds
Front Back
High iu
Mid ɛʌ ɔ
Low ɑ


References

  1. ↑ Tungag at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tungag". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. ↑ Karin E. Fast. 2015. Spatial language in Tungag. (Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia, 4.) Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics.


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