Wogamusin is a Papuan language found in four villages in the Ambunti District of East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. It was spoken by about 700 people in 1998.Ethnologue.
Phonology +Vowels Front Central Back Close Mid Open
In non-final positions, , , and are , , and , respectively. appears only in unstressed syllables; when it is followed by it is rounded: .
+Consonants Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal Plosive Voiceless Voiced Voiced prenasalized Fricative Flap Semivowel
Between vowels, and lenite to the fricatives and , respectively. is realized as an affricate, , word-initially. is velar, , after and . Word-finally, voiceless stops are usually unreleased.
Phonotactics The consonant only occurs finally. Bilabial and velar consonants may be followed by when initial, but otherwise consonant clusters only occur over syllable boundaries, with the exception of the unusual word ('snake').
Pronouns Wogamusin pronouns:
! !! sg !! du !! pl |- ! 1 | nay || nond || non |- ! 2 | ni || noh || nom |- ! 3m | ye || yoh || yor |- ! 3f | yo || ||
Notes
External links Paradisec has an open access collection from Theodore Schwartz that includes Wogamusin language materials
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