Language name: |
VANIMO |
UPSID number: |
8640 |
Alternate name(s): |
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Classification: |
Papuan, Sko |
This language has |
28 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.332119100 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: |
p
t
b
d
d_
B
hh
s
m
n
n_
l
i
e
E
a
O
o
u
@)
i~
e~
E~
a~
O~
o~
u~
@)~
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Comment: |
Dumo dialect. Vanimo is spoken in an area on the northern coast of Papua New Guinea near the Irian Jaya border. Ross (1980) describes it as having 3 "tones": "high", "long", and "toneless". Long tone is apparently not perceptibly longer "because Vanimo has strict syllable-timing" but it has a mid onset. The palato-alveolar stop has affricate and approximant variants. Ross considers it posible that nasalized vowels could be allophonic but conditioning is not understood. |
Source(s): |
Ross, M. 1980. "Some elements of Vanimo, a New Guinea tone language". Papers in New Guinea Linguistics 20 (Pacific Linguistics, Series A, No. 56): 77-109. |