Amele language

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Amele
Sona
Native to Papua New Guinea
Region Madang Province
Native speakers
(5,300 cited 1987) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 aey
Glottolog amel1241

Amele (Amele: Sona) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Huar, Jagahala and Haija.

Contents

Amele is notable for having 32 possessive classes, [2] over 69,000 finite forms and 860 infinitive forms of the verb. [3]

Phonology

Amele has 5 vowels: /i, ɛ, æ, u, ɔ/. [4]

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal mn
Stop voicelesstkʔ
voiced bdg
Fricative fsʝh
Approximant l

Grammar

Amele has seven tense-aspect categories, including four past tenses: [5]

References

  1. ↑ Amele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ "WALS Online - Chapter Possessive Classification".
  3. ↑ Anna Siewierska, Jae Jung Song (1998). Case, Typology and Grammar: In honor of Barry J. Blake. Amsterdam: John Benjamin B.V. p. 112. ISBN   90-272-2937-6.
  4. ↑ Roberts, John R. (1987). Amele. London: Croom Helm. ISBN   0709942540. OCLC   14132880.
  5. ↑ Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–196. ISBN   978-3-11-028642-7.


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