Mapos Buang language
Mapos Buang, also known as Mapos or Central Buang, is an Oceanic language in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
| Mapos | |
|---|---|
| Central Buang | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Morobe Province |
Native speakers | 10,500 (2000)[1] 30% monolingual (2000?)[2] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bzh |
| Glottolog | mapo1242 |
Phonology
Mapos Buang has a larger sound inventory than is typical of most Austronesian languages. Notable is the existence of a phonemic contrast between a velar nasal and a uvular nasal, which is extremely rare among the world's languages. Along with this, its phonology is unusually symmetrical compared to most other languages.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i(ː) | u(ː) | |
| Mid | e(ː) | (ə)* | o(ː) |
| Low | ɛ(ː) | a(ː) | ɔ(ː) |
* [ə] is a prominent feature of Buang phonology, but is not contrastive.
Consonants
| Bilabial | Coronal | Post-alv./ Palatal |
Velar | Labio- velar |
Uvular | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ŋʷ | ɴ |
| (prenasalized) Occlusive |
ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿdʒ | ᵑɡ | ᵑɡʷ | ᶰɢ |
| p | t | tʃ | k | kʷ | q | |
| Continuant | β | l̪ | j | ɣ | w* | ʁ |
| Liquid | l~ɽ |
*/w/ is a bilabial approximant or semivowel with no co-articulated velar component. It is placed in the labio-velar series of the chart as it fills a gap in this position. /β/ is a voiced bilabial fricative.
References
- Mapos at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Mapos Buang language at Ethnologue (15th ed., 2005)
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