Takia language
Takia | |
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Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Madang Province |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 40,000)[1] |
Language family | Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tbc |
Glottolog | taki1248 |
Takia is an Austronesian language spoken on Karkar Island, Bagabag Island, and coastal villages Megiar and Serang, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. It has been syntactically restructured by Waskia, a Papuan language spoken on the island.
Children are discouraged from using Takia, and it is being supplanted by Tok Pisin and English.[citation needed]
Phonology
Labial | Alveolar | Velar | |
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Plosive | p b | t d | k g |
Nasal | m | n | ŋ |
Fricative | f | s | |
Rhotic | r | ||
Lateral | l | ||
Glide | w | j |
Voiced stops can be optionally prenasalised word initially as [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ] in some dialects.
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Low | a |
/a/ is heard as [æ] before a consonant preceding /i/. The sequence /ae/ is pronounced word-initially and word-medially as [æː].[2]
References
- ^ Takia at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
- ^ Ross, Malcolm (2002). Takia. John Lynch and Malcolm Ross and Terry Crowley (eds.), The Oceanic Languages: Richmond: Curzon. pp. 216–248.
External links
- Takia Vocabulary List (from the World Loanword Database)
- Kaipuleohone has archived a Takia word list as part of Robert Blust's field notes
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