Mountain Koiari (Koiali) is a language of Oro Province and Central Province, Papua New Guinea. It is not very similar to the other language which shares its name, Grass Koiari. Half of its speakers are monolingual.
It is spoken in Barai, Efogi (9°09′22″S 147°39′56″E / 9.156234°S 147.665661°E), and Koiari villages of Koiari Rural LLG, as well as in Hiri Rural LLG.[2][3]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | b | t d | k ɡ |
| Fricative | ɸ | s | x |
| Nasal | m | n | |
| Approximant | l |
- Sounds /ɸ, x/ can also be voiced as [β, ɣ] in word-medial position.
- Sounds /t, l/ can also be lenited as [ɾ, z] in word-medial position.[4]
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
References
- ^ Mountain Koiali at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
Biage at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
- ^ Garland, Roger & Susan (1975). A grammar sketch of Mountain Koiali. In Tom E. Dutton (ed.), Studies in languages of central and south-east Papua: Canberra: Australian National University. pp. 413–470.
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