One language

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One
Aunalei
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionWest Wapei Rural LLG, Sandaun Province
Native speakers
(4,500 cited 2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
onr – Northern
oin – Inebu
aun – Molmo
onk – Kabore
okk – Kwamtim
osu – Southern
qaz One
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One (also known as Onele and Aunalei)[2] is a Torricelli dialect cluster of West Wapei Rural LLG in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.[3]

Languages

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Glottolog 4.0 lists the following One varieties as separate languages:

  • Southern One
  • Kwamtim One
  • Central-Northern One
    • Inebu
    • Kabore
    • Molmo
    • Northern One

A detailed dialectology of One is described in Crowther (2001).[4]

The One dialects are spoken in the following villages and wards of West Wapei Rural LLG, Sandaun Province.[3][5]

  • Kwamtim One is spoken in Kwamtum (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) and Kwatim (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.) villages.
  • Inebu One is spoken in Inebu ward (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.).
  • Kabore One is spoken in Kabore ward (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.).
  • Molmo One is spoken in Molmo ward (Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found.).

Phonology

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Molmo One consonants are:[6]

m n
p t k
f s
w l j
r

Molmo One vowels are:[6]

i ɨ u
e o
ɛ a ɔ

Pronouns

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Molmo One pronouns:[6]: 334 

sg du pl
1incl mimpla ~ fimpla mine
1excl i mumpla ~ fumpla mo
2 (y)ine ~ yo pimpla pine ~ po
3 wine ~ wo numpla nine ~ no

Nouns

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Molmo One nominal plural formatives include:[6]

gloss singular plural
‘woman’ pino pini
‘wife’ puli pulpi
‘flower’ sula sulu
‘lizard’ saunina saune
‘mosquito’ unkun unkle
‘thorn’ neni nenine

Further reading

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  • Donohue, Mark P. n.d. Lexical categories, complexity and the configurationality split in One. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Linguistics, Monash University.

References

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  1. ^ Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Inebu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Molmo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Kabore at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Kwamtim at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Southern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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  4. ^ Crowther, Melissa. 2001. All the One language(s): comparing linguistic and ethnographic definitions of language in New Guinea. MA thesis, University of Sydney.
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