Aghu language
| Aghu | |
|---|---|
| Central Awyu | |
| Region | South Papua, Indonesia |
Native speakers | (<14,000 cited 1987–2002)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:ahh – Aghuawu – Central Awyu |
| Glottolog | mapp1234 |
Aghu, or Central Awyu, is a Papuan language of South Papua, Indonesia. It may actually be two languages, depending on one's criteria for a 'language'. The two varieties are: Mappi River Awyu (Aghu) and Pasue River Awyu (Nohon, Mitak).[2]
Phonology
[edit]The phonology of the Aghu language:[3]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | |
| voiced | b | d~ɾ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | f | s~ʃ | x | ||
| Approximant | w | j | |||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | y yː | u uː | |
| Mid | ɛ ɛː | ɔ ɔː | ||
| Open | a aː | |||
The front rounded vowel /y/ is unusual among local languages in Indonesia, but it can also be found in few others such as Ulumanda’. At the ends of words, vowels may appear both long and nasalized. This occurs historically where there was a final nasal /m/ or /n/. Within words, rather than nasal vowels there are sequences of vowel plus nasal consonant which matches the articulation of the following consonant. Thus nasal vowels may be analyzed as /Vn/ or /VN/.
References
[edit]- ↑ Aghu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Central Awyu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) - ↑ "Awyu". newguineaworld. Retrieved 2024-07-19.
- ↑ van den Heuvel, Wilco (2016). Aghu: Annotated Texts With Grammatical Introduction and Vocabulary Lists. A-PL 33. Canberra: Australian National University. hdl:1885/111412. ISBN 9781922185358.
Further reading
[edit]- Drabbe, P. (1957). Spraakkunst van het Aghu-dialect van de Awju-taal (in Dutch). Den Haag: M. Nijhoff.
- Voorhoeve, C. L. (1980) [1975]. Languages of Irian Jaya, Checklist: Preliminary Classification, Language Maps, Wordlists. Series B - No. 31. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 28, 98. hdl:1885/146481.
External links
[edit]- Aghu at the Awyu–Ndumut research group at VU University Amsterdam
- OLAC resources in and about the Aghu language
- OLAC resources in and about the Central Awyu language
- OLAC resources in and about the Jair Awyu language
- OLAC resources in and about the North Awyu language
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