Dano language
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| Dano | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Goroka District, Eastern Highlands Province |
Native speakers | (30,000 cited 1987)[1] |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aso |
| Glottolog | dano1240 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
Dano (Upper Asaro) is a Papuan language spoken by about 30,000 people in Upper Asaro Rural LLG, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
[edit | edit source]| Labial | Alveolar | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ |
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | ||
| Fricative | voiceless | (ɸ) | s | h | |
| voiced | β | z | ɣ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Approximant | l | (j) | |||
| Flap | (ɺ) | ||||
- /z, h/ can be pronounced as either [j, ɸ].
- /β, ɣ/ can be palatalized [ʲ] when before back vowels.
- /l/ can also commonly be heard as an alveolar flap [ɺ].
- /ⁿd/ can also be heard as a prenasal dental [ⁿ̪d̪].[2][3]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Dano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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