Tigak language
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Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (in 1991)[1] in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.
The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.
Phonology
Phoneme inventory of the Tigak language:
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | |
| Plosive | voiceless | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link |
| voiced | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | ||
| Rhotic | Template:IPA link | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | |
| lateral | Template:IPA link | |||
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| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
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| Mid | Template:IPA link | Template:IPA link | |
| Low | Template:IPA link |
| Phoneme | Allophones |
|---|---|
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External links
References
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