Oksapmin language

Oksapmin language
Oksapmin
nuxule meŋ 'our language'
Spoken in Papua New Guinea
Region Telefomin District, Sandaun
Native speakers 8,000  (1991)
Language family
Trans–New Guinea
Dialects
Upper Oksapmin
Lower Oksapmin
Writing system Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 opm
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Oksapmin is a Trans–New Guinea language spoken in Telefomin District, Sandaun, Papua New Guinea. It has been influenced by the Ok languages (indeed, the name "Oksapmin" is from an Ok language), and the similarities with those languages were attributed to borrowing in the classifications of both Stephen Wurm (1975) and Malcolm Ross (2005), where Oksapmin was placed as an independent branch of Trans–New Guinea. However, Loughnane (2009)[1] and Loughnane and Fedden (2011)[2] demonstrated that that it is related to the Ok languages, though they share innovative features not found in Oksapmin.

The two principal dialects are distinct enough to cause some problems with mutually intelligibility.

Oksapmin has dyadic kinship terms.[3]

Contents

Phonology

Vowels

There are seven monophthongs, /i e ə a o ʉ u/, and one diphthong, /ai/.

Consonants

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Unrounded Rounded
Stop Voiceless p t k kʷ
Voiced b d ɡ ɡʷ
Fricative s x xʷ
Nasal m n ŋ ŋʷ
Flap ɾ
Approximant j w

Tone

Oksapmin contrasts two tones: high and low.

References

  1. ^ Loughnane, Robyn. (2009) A Grammar of Oksapmin. Doctoral dissertation, University of Melbourne.
  2. ^ Loughnane, Robyn and Fedden, Sebastian (2011) 'Is Oksapmin Ok?-A Study of the Genetic Relationship between Oksapmin and the Ok Languages', Australian Journal of Linguistics, 31: 1, 1-42.
  3. ^ The Oksapmin Kinship System, retrieved May 21, 2009.



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