| Tigak | |
|---|---|
| Region | New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Native speakers | (6,000 cited 1991) |
| Language family | Austronesian
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| Writing system | Latin |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tgc |
| Glottolog | tiga1245 |
Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (in 1991) in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.
The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.
Phonology
Phoneme inventory of the Tigak language:
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k |
| voiced | b | g | ||
| Rhotic | r | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | β | s | |
| lateral | ɮ | |||
/r/ can also be realized as [ɾ] allophonically. Both /k, ɡ/ are back-released as .
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ɔ | |
| Low | a |
| Phoneme | Allophones |
|---|---|
| /i/ | [i], [ɪ], [y] |
| /e/ | [e], [ɛ] |
| /a/ | [ʌ], [a] |
Two vowels /i u/ in word-initial form can also be released as consonantal allophones .
External links
References
- Tigak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Gordon, Raymond G. Jr., ed. (2005). "Tigak". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (fifteenth ed.). Dallas: SIL.
{{cite book}}: External link in|chapter= - Beaumont, Clive H. (1974). The Tigak Language of New Ireland. Australian National University.
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