| Tigak | |
|---|---|
| Region | New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | (6,000 cited 1991) [1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tgc |
| Glottolog | tiga1245 |
Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (in 1991) [2] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.
The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.
Phoneme inventory of the Tigak language:
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k |
| voiced | b | g | ||
| Rhotic | r | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | β | s | |
| lateral | ɮ | |||
/r/ can also be realized as [ ɾ ] allophonically. Both /k,ɡ/ are back-released as [k̠,ɡ̠].
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ɔ | |
| Low | a |
| Phoneme | Allophones |
|---|---|
| /i/ | [ i ], [ ɪ ], [ y ] |
| /e/ | [ e ], [ ɛ ] |
| /a/ | [ ʌ ], [ a ] |
Two vowels /iu/ in word-initial form can also be released as consonantal allophones [wj]. [3]
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