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Yonggom
Yonggom
Yongkom
Native to	Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
Region	Western Province, Papua New Guinea; South Papua Boven Digoel; ;
Native speakers	(6,000 cited 1999)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Central & South New Guinea ? Ok Lowland Ok Yonggom; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yon
Glottolog	yong1280
ELP	Yonggom

Yonggom is one of the Ok languages of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. According to its speakers, it is part of a continuum of 9 mutually intelligible dialects of Muyu languages which also includes Muyu, North Muyu (Kadi), South Muyu, and Ningrum.^[2] Petabahasa by Indonesian Ministry of Education classified this language as Yonggom/Yongkom (BPS:1158 6) spoken in Kampung Ninati,^[3] although another name recorded for South Muyu (BPS:0917 2) is Yongon.^[4]^[5]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k kʷ
Plosive	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative			s
Tap			ɾ
Approximant		w	(l)	j

/b, d/ can become fricatives [β, ð] intervocalically in fast speech.
/k/ can be heard as a fricative [ɣ] in fast speech.
/ɾ/ becomes [l] in word-initial position.
/j/ is heard as an affricate [dʒ] when following a plosive.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Mid	ɛ ɛː		o oː
Open		a aː

/i/ becomes [ɪ] when before /s/ or a word-final /n/.
/ɛ/ becomes more close as [e] when before a sonorant back consonant.^[6]

References

↑ Yonggom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
↑ Zahrer, Alexander. 2019. First data of Moyu, a lowland Ok language of New Guinea. 11th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL11 Archived 2022-12-16 at the Wayback Machine), 13-15 Juni 2019, Universitas Leiden.
↑ "Yonggom". Peta Bahasa (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 2025-08-13. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
↑ "Muyu Selatan". Peta Bahasa (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 2024-02-29. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
↑ "Master Bahasa BPS 2010". Scribd (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2020-07-06.
↑ Christensen, Steve (2002). Yongkom (Yonggom, Yongom) Language. Organised Phonology Data: SIL.

External links

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[e18-1] Yonggom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[zahrer-2] Zahrer, Alexander. 2019. First data of Moyu, a lowland Ok language of New Guinea. 11th International Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference (APLL11 Archived 2022-12-16 at the Wayback Machine), 13-15 Juni 2019, Universitas Leiden.

[yonggom-3] "Yonggom". Peta Bahasa (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 2025-08-13. Retrieved 2024-10-12.

[Musl-4] "Muyu Selatan". Peta Bahasa (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 2024-02-29. Retrieved 2024-10-12.

[5] "Master Bahasa BPS 2010". Scribd (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2020-07-06.

[6] Christensen, Steve (2002). Yongkom (Yonggom, Yongom) Language. Organised Phonology Data: SIL.

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