Kamasau language

Kamasau
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionEast Sepik Province
Native speakers
960 (2003)
Language codes
ISO 639-3kms
Glottologkama1367
ELPKamasau
Kamasau language is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.
Coordinates: 3°44′08″S 143°48′55″E / 3.735538°S 143.815344°E / -3.735538; 143.815344 (Kamasau)
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Kamasau is an endangered Torricelli language of Turubu Rural LLG, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

Dialects

There are three dialects:

Ghini dialect is divergent.[citation needed] The dictionary[which?] is based on the Segi dialect of Tring.[citation needed]

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants
LabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottal
Plosivevoiceless ttʃkʔ
voiced bddʒɡ
prenasalized ᵐbⁿdᶮdʒᵑg
Fricativevoiceless ɸsh
voiced βɣ
Nasal mnɲŋ
Trill r
Approximant wj

Vowels

Vowels
FrontCentralBack
Close iu
Mid eəo
Open a

Notes

  1. 1 2 Kamasau at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. 1 2 United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  3. 1 2 Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. p. 305. doi:10.1515/9783110295252-003. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.