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| One | |
|---|---|
| Aunalei | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | West Wapei Rural LLG, Sandaun Province |
Native speakers | (4,500 cited 2000)[1] |
Torricelli
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:onr – Northernoin – Inebuaun – Molmoonk – Kaboreokk – Kwamtimosu – Southern |
qaz One | |
| Glottolog | onee1245 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]- Donohue, Mark P. n.d. Lexical categories, complexity and the configurationality split in One. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Linguistics, Monash University.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ 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) - ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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- ^ 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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