Nemi language
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Austronesian language spoken in New Caledonia
| Nemi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Hienghène, New Caledonia |
Native speakers | 910 (2009 census)[1] |
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nem |
| Glottolog | nemi1240 |
| ELP | Nemi |
 Nemi is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
The Nemi language is a
Kanak language spoken by 320 people in the north of New Caledonia, in the commune of Hienghène. Dialects include Ouanga, Ouélis, and Kavatch.[2]
Phonology
The phonology of Nemi is as follows:[3]
| Labiovelar | Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | voiced
|
mʷˠ | m | n
|
ɲ | ŋ | |
voiceless
|
m̥ʷˠ | m̥ | n̥ | ɲ̥ | ŋ̥ | ||
Stops
|
tenuis | pʷˠ | p | t
|
c | k | |
| aspirated | pʷˠʰ | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||
prenasalized
|
ᵐpʷˠ | ᵐp | ⁿt | ᶮc | ᵑk | ||
| postnasalized | pʷˠᵐ | pᵐ | tⁿ | cᶮ | kᵑ | ||
| Continuants | voiced oral
|
w | v | ( l )
|
j | ||
voiceless oral
|
w̥ | f | j̥
|
h | |||
voiced nasal
|
w̃ | ||||||
voiceless nasal
|
w̥̃
|
h̃ | |||||
Note that the 'labiovelar' consonants are labialized and velarized bilabial consonants (with the exception of /w/ and its voiceless, nasal, and voiceless nasal counterparts, which are
labial-velar
approximants.).
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
short
|
long
|
short
|
long
| |
High
|
i | iː | u | uː |
| Mid | e | eː | o | oː |
Low
|
a | aː | ||
The vowel /a/ actually represents the low central unrounded vowel, /ä/, and not the low front unrounded vowel, /a/.
References
- ^ Nemi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Isabelle Bril, Françoise Ozanne-Rivierre, Complex Predicates in Oceanic Languages: Studies in the Dynamics of Binding and Boundness (2012), p. 389.
- ^ Rivierre, Françoise. 1975. Phonologie du némi (Nouvelle-Calédonie) et notes sur les consonnes postnasalisées. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris 70. 345-356.
Bibliography
- ISBN 978-2852971349.
External links
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