Lamogai
Native toPapua New Guinea
Regionparts of West New Britain Province
Native speakers
(3,600 cited 1980)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3lmg
Glottologlamo1244

Lamogai is an Austronesian language spoken by about 3600 individuals in parts of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea on the island of New Britain.

Phonology

Consonants[2]
Labial Alveolar Velar
Plosive p b t d k g
Fricative s
Nasal m n ŋ
Approximant r, l
  • The nasal consonants /m n ŋ/ can appear as the syllabic nasals [m̩ n̩ ŋ̩] word-initially.
  • The nasal consonants /m n ŋ/ appear as prenasalised voiced stops [mb nd ŋg] before /r/.
  • The voiced stops /b d g/ frequently manifest as fricatives [β ɹ ɣ] after vowels.
  • /r/ is voiceless [r̥] word-finally.
  • Sonorants /r l m n ŋ/ are voiceless [r̥ l̥ m̥ n̥ ŋ̊] in clusters after voiceless stops.
Vowels[2]
Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e o
Low a
  • /i/ sporadically manifests as [ɯ] before /r/.

Stress tends to occur in penultimate position.

References

  1. ↑ Lamogai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 Thurston, William R. (1996). Ross, Malcolm D. (ed.). "The Bibling Languages of Northwestern New Britain". Studies in the Languages of New Britain and New Ireland 1: Austronesian Languages of the North New Guinea Cluster in Northwestern New Britain. Pacific Linguistics: Series C. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. 135: 249–392.


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