Kwomtari is the eponymous language of the Kwomtari family of Papua New Guinea.
Spencer (2008) is a short grammar of Kwomtari. The language has an SOV constituent order and nominative–accusative alignment. Both subjects and objects are marked suffixally on the verb. Verbs are inflected for status (mood) rather than for tense or aspect.
Locations Ethnologue lists Kwomtari as spoken in six villages in Komtari (Kwomtari) ward (), Amanab Rural LLG, Sandaun Province.
Baron (2007) lists Kwomtari-speaking villages as Mango, Kwomtari, Baiberi, Yenabi, Yau'uri, and Wagroni.
Phonology
+Consonant phonemes of KwontariDrew, Julia (1998). "Kwontari Phonology Essentials". In Murray Honsberger, Carol Honsberger and Ian Tupper. Kwomtari phonology and grammar essentials. Ukarumpa, Papua New Guinea: SIL-PNG Academic Publications. .BilabialAlveolarRetroflexVelarPlosive NasalFricativeTrillLateral
The phoneme is realized as a voiced bilabial fricative intervocalically and voiceless bilabial fricative elsewhere. The realization of the phoneme is in free variation between a voiced retroflex lateral and a voiced retroflex stop .
+Vowel phonemes of KwontariDrew (1998). Front Central BackCloseNear-closeMidOpen-MidOpen
The unusual vowel phonemes and are of intermediate height between cardinal and respectively but without the centralization present in and . They have also been attested in Weri, a Goilalan language of south-east Papua, and certain Dani dialects.Foley (1986:54)
References
External links Kwomtari phonology, word examples and text example