Tanggu language

Tanggu
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province
Native speakers	(3,000 cited 1991)
Language family	Ramu Ramu proper Tamolan–Ataitan Ataitan Tanggu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tgu
Glottolog	tang1355
ELP	Tangu

Tanggu (Tangu, Tanggum) is a Ramu language of Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Dorsal
Plosive	p	t		k
Prenasalized	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿdʒ	ᵑg
Fricative	β	s z		ʁ
Nasal	m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Approximant		r	j

• /m/ can occur syllabically [m̩] word-initially.
• /ʁ/ is heard as [ɣ] before /i/.
• /ⁿdʒ/ is pronounced [z~j] in the Wagi dialect.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i	ɨ	u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

• /ɨ/ almost always occurs only in unstressed syllables and diphthongs.

Additionally, the following diphthongs have been observed: /ia/, /ɨa/, /ai/, /ui/, /au/, /ua/. /ai/ is realised as [æ] word-finally.