Ogea language
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| Ogea | |
|---|---|
| Erima | |
| Native to | Trans–New Guinea
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | eri |
| Glottolog | ogea1238 |
Ogea or Erima is a
Papuan language spoken by approximately 2210 people living in an area 18 kilometers south of the town of Madang, in the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea.[2]
Language characteristics
Phonemically, Ogea has a 15
deictics following adjectives—the reverse of English
.
Switch reference indicates whether the referents of the clause
in question are referents in the following clause.
It is useful to
exocentric, following the lead of Staalesen and Wells. Endocentric suffixes occur between the verb root and the exocenter. Endocentric suffixes include manner, object, and benefactive suffixes, among others. The same set of endocentric suffixes are used with varying sets of exocentric suffixes. The endocenter is composed of the verb root plus the endocentric suffixes. Exocentric suffixes encode inter-clausal temporality, tense, mood
, subject, and switch reference. They are termed exocentric because they may contain suffixes that relate to the clause that follows. That is, the inter-clausal temporality and switch reference relate the current clause to the one that follows it.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | k | ||
| voiced | b | d | dʑ | ɡ | ||
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||
/w/ may also be heard as [β] before /e/.[3]
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | nasal | plain | nasal | ||
High
|
i, iː | u, uː | ũ, ũː | ||
| Mid | e, eː | o, oː | |||
Low
|
a, aː | ãː | |||
References
- ^ Ogea at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Ethnologue's report about Ogea
- ^ Erima (Ogea) Language [ERI] Madang – Madang Province (PDF). Organised Phonology Data: SIL.