Kâte language

Kâte language

Kâte is a Papuan language spoken by about 6,000 people in the Finschhafen District of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is part of the Finisterre-Huon subgroup of the hypothetical Trans-New Guinea phylum of languages (Ross 2005). It was adopted for teaching and mission work among speakers of Papuan languages by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea in the early 1900s and at one time had as many as 80,000 second-language speakers.

Phonology

Vowels (orthographic)

Kâte distinguishes six vowels. The low back vowel "â" sounds like the vowel of English "law" or "saw" (Pilhofer 1933: 14). Length is not distinctive.

References

* Flierl, Wilhelm, and Hermann Strauss, eds. (1977). "Kâte dictionary." Series C-41. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
* Pilhofer, G. (1933). "Grammatik der Kâte-Sprache in Neuguinea." Vierzehntes Beihelf zur Zeitschrift für Eingeborenen-Sprachen. Berlin: Dietrich Reimer.

External links

*ethnologue|code=kmg


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