Aghu, or Central Awyu, is a Papuan language of South Papua, Indonesia. It may actually be two languages, depending on one's criteria for a 'language'. The two varieties are:[2] Mappi River Awyu (Aghu) and Pasue River Awyu (Nohon, Mitak).[citation needed]
Phonology
The phonology of the Aghu language:[3]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | |
| voiced | b | d~ɾ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | f | s~ʃ | x | ||
| Approximant | w | j | |||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | y yː | u uː | |
| Mid | ɛ ɛː | ɔ ɔː | ||
| Open | a aː | |||
The front rounded vowel /y/ is unusual among local languages in Indonesia. At the ends of words, vowels may appear both long and nasalized. This occurs historically where there was a final nasal /m/ or /n/. Within words, rather than nasal vowels there are sequences of vowel plus nasal consonant which matches the articulation of the following consonant. Thus nasal vowels may be analyzed as /Vn/ or /VN/.
References
- ^ Aghu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Central Awyu at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "Awyu". newguineaworld. Archived from the original on 2020-02-12. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
- ^ van den Heuvel, Wilco (2016). Aghu: Annotated Texts With Grammatical Introduction and Vocabulary Lists. A-PL 33. Canberra: Australian National University. hdl:1885/111412. ISBN 9781922185358.
Further reading
- Drabbe, P. (1957). Spraakkunst van het Aghu-dialect van de Awju-taal (in Dutch). Den Haag: M. Nijhoff.
- Voorhoeve, C. L. (1980) [1975]. Languages of Irian Jaya, Checklist: Preliminary Classification, Language Maps, Wordlists. Series B - No. 31. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 28, 98. hdl:1885/146481.
External links
- Aghu at the Awyu–Ndumut research group at VU University Amsterdam
- OLAC resources in and about the Aghu language
- OLAC resources in and about the Central Awyu language
- OLAC resources in and about the Jair Awyu language
- OLAC resources in and about the North Awyu language
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