Amele (Amele: Sona) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Huar, Jagahala and Haija.
Amele is notable for having 32 possessive classes, over 69,000 finite forms and 860 infinitive forms of the verb.
Phonology Amele has 5 vowels: /i, ɛ, æ, u, ɔ/. +ConsonantsLabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalNasalmnStopvoicelesstkʔvoicedbdgFricativefsʝhApproximantl
Grammar Amele has seven tense-aspect categories, including four past tenses:
past habitual remote past yesterday’s past today’s past plus present future relative future
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External links Alphabet and pronunciation