- Oksapmin language
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Oksapmin nuxule meŋ 'our language' Spoken in Papua New Guinea Region Telefomin District, Sandaun Native speakers 8,000 (1991) Language family Trans–New Guinea- Central & South New Guinea ?
- Ok–Oksapmin
- Oksapmin
- Ok–Oksapmin
Dialects Upper OksapminLower OksapminWriting system Latin Language codes ISO 639-3 opm This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. Oksapmin is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken in Telefomin District, Sandaun, Papua New Guinea. It has been influenced by the Ok languages (indeed, the name "Oksapmin" is from an Ok language), and the similarities with those languages were attributed to borrowing in the classifications of both Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005), where Oksapmin was placed as an independent branch of Trans–New Guinea. However, Loughnane (2009)[1] and Loughnane and Fedden (2011)[2] demonstrated that that it is related to the Ok languages, though they share innovative features not found in Oksapmin.
The two principal dialects are distinct enough to cause some problems with mutually intelligibility.
Oksapmin has dyadic kinship terms.[3]
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Phonology
Vowels
There are seven monophthongs, /i e ə a o ʉ u/, and one diphthong, /ai/.
Consonants
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Unrounded Rounded Stop Voiceless p t k kʷ Voiced b d ɡ ɡʷ Fricative s x xʷ Nasal m n ŋ ŋʷ Flap ɾ Approximant j w Tone
Oksapmin contrasts two tones: high and low.
References
- ^ Loughnane, Robyn. (2009) A Grammar of Oksapmin. Doctoral dissertation, University of Melbourne.
- ^ Loughnane, Robyn and Fedden, Sebastian (2011) 'Is Oksapmin Ok?-A Study of the Genetic Relationship between Oksapmin and the Ok Languages', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 31: 1, 1-42.
- ^ The Oksapmin Kinship System, retrieved May 21, 2009.
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