Taulil language

Taulil
Region	New Britain
Native speakers	2,000 (2012) [1]
Language family	East New Britain Taulil–Butam Taulil
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tuh
Glottolog	taul1251
ELP	Taulil
Taulil is classified as Vulnerable by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger .

Taulil is a Papuan language spoken in East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

It is spoken in Kadaulung village of ( 4°27′09″S152°07′06″E / 4.452603°S 152.118398°E / -4.452603; 152.118398 (Kadaulung N0.2) ) of Inland Baining Rural LLG, and in Taulil 1 ( 4°24′48″S152°05′32″E / 4.413301°S 152.092147°E / -4.413301; 152.092147 (Taulil No.1) ) and Taulil 2 ( 4°25′12″S152°05′15″E / 4.419937°S 152.087372°E / -4.419937; 152.087372 (Taulil No.2) ) villages of Vunadidir/Toma Rural LLG. ^{[1] [2]}

Butam (now extinct) is related. Like the Butam, the Taulil people trace their ancestry to New Ireland. ^[3]

Phonology

Taulil has the following consonants: ^[3]

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive (voiceless)	p	t		k
Plosive (voiced)	b	d		ɡ
Nasal	m	n		ŋ
Tap/Flap		ɾ
Fricative	β
Approximant			j
Lateral approximant		l

References

1. Taulil at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
3. Stebbins, Tonya; Evans, Bethwyn; Terrill, Angela (2018). "The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia". 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. 775–894. ISBN   978-3-11-028642-7.

• Meng, Chenxi (2018). A grammar of Tulil (Ph.D. thesis). La Trobe University. hdl: 1959.9/565684 .