| Aghu | |
|---|---|
| Central Awyu | |
| Region | South Papua, Indonesia |
Native speakers | (<14,000 cited 1987–2002) [1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: ahh – Aghu awu – Central Awyu |
| Glottolog | mapp1234 |
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: Mappi River Awyu (Aghu) and Pasue River Awyu (Nohon, Mitak). [2]
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, but it can also be found in few others such as Ulumanda’. 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/.
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