Tigak language
Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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.
Tigak | |
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Region | New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | (6,000 cited 1991)[1] |
Austronesian
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Latin | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tgc |
Glottolog | tiga1245 |
The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.
Phoneme inventory of the Tigak language:
/r/ can also be realized as [ɾ] allophonically. Both /k, ɡ/ are back-released as [k̠, ɡ̠].
Two vowels /i u/ in word-initial form can also be released as consonantal allophones [w j].[3]
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