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Mapos Buang language

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Mapos
Central Buang
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMorobe Province
Native speakers
7,000 (2001)[1]
1,400 monolinguals (2001)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3bzh
Glottologmapo1242

Mapos Buang, also known as Mapos or Central Buang, is an Oceanic language in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

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Mapos Buang has a larger sound inventory than is typical of most Austronesian languages.[citation needed] 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

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Front Central Back
High i(ː) u(ː)
Mid e(ː) ⟨ë⟩ ə* ⟨e⟩ o(ː)
Low ɛ(ː) ⟨e⟩ a(ː) ɔ(ː) ⟨ö⟩

* [ə] is a prominent feature of Buang phonology, but is not contrastive. Thus both it and [e] are represented with ⟨e⟩.

Vowel length is shown in the orthography by doubling the letter.[2]

Consonants

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Bilabial Coronal Post-alv./
Palatal
Velar Labio-
velar
Uvular
Nasal m n ɲ ⟨ny⟩ ŋ ⟨ng⟩ ŋʷ ⟨ngw⟩ ɴ ⟨nġ⟩
(prenasalized)
Occlusive
ᵐb ⟨b⟩ ⁿd ⟨d⟩ ⁿdʒ ⟨j⟩ ᵑɡ ⟨g⟩ ᵑɡʷ ⟨gw⟩ ᶰɢ ⟨ġ⟩
p t ⟨s⟩ k ⟨kw⟩ q ⟨ḳ⟩
Continuant β ⟨v⟩ ⟨l⟩ j ⟨y⟩ ɣ ⟨gg⟩ w* ʁ ⟨h⟩
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.

Orthography is the same as in the IPA when nothing is shown.

References

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  1. ^ a b Mapos at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ "Mapos Buang dictionary". SIL International. 2022-09-15. Retrieved 2023-02-15.
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