One language

One (Onele, Aunalei) is a Torricelli dialect cluster of West Wapei Rural LLG in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.[3]

One
Aunalei
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionWest Wapei Rural LLG, Sandaun Province
Native speakers
4,500 (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
onr  Northern
oin  Inebu
aun  Molmo
onk  Kabore
okk  Kwamtim
osu  Southern
qaz One
Glottologonee1245[2]

Languages

Glottolog 4.0 lists the following One varieties as separate languages:

  • Southern One
  • Kwamtim One
  • Central-Northern One
    • Inebu
    • Kabore
    • Molmo
    • Northern One

A detailed dialectology of One is described in Crowther (2001).[4]

The One dialects are spoken in the following villages and wards of West Wapei Rural LLG, Sandaun Province.[3][5]

Phonology

Molmo One consonants are:[6]

ptk
fs
mn
l
r
wj

Molmo One vowels are:[6]

iɨu
eo
ɛɔ
a

Pronouns

Molmo One pronouns:[6]:334

sgdupl
1incl mimpla ~ fimplamine
1excl imumpla ~ fumplamo
2 (y)ine ~ yopimplapine ~ po
3 wine ~ wonumplanine ~ no

Nouns

Molmo One nominal plural formatives include:[6]

glosssingularplural
‘woman’pinopini
‘wife’pulipulpi
‘flower’sulasulu
‘lizard’sauninasaune
‘mosquito’unkununkle
‘thorn’neninenine

Further reading

  • Donohue, Mark P. n.d. Lexical categories, complexity and the configurationality split in One. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Linguistics, Monash University.

References

  1. Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Inebu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Molmo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kabore at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Kwamtim at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Southern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "One". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  4. Crowther, Melissa. 2001. All the One language(s): comparing linguistic and ethnographic definitions of language in New Guinea. MA thesis, University of Sydney.
  5. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  6. Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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