Dobu language
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| Dobu | |
|---|---|
| Dobuan | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel |
Native speakers | (10,000 cited 1998) 60% monolingual L2 speakers: 51,000 (2021) |
| Latin script (Dobuan alphabet) Dobuan Braille | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dob |
| Glottolog | dobu1241 |
Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in D'Entrecasteaux Islands.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | pʷ | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | ʔʷ | |
| voiced | b | bʷ | d | ɡ | ɡʷ | ||||
| Fricative | s | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | mʷ | n | ||||||
| Flap | ɺ | ||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | |||||||
- Sounds /p, t, k/ may also be aspirated in free variation as in all environments.
- The lateral flap /ɺ/ may fluctuate with an alveolar vibrant flap depending on the dialect of the speaker.
- /j/ may also fluctuate with a fricative within vocabulary.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
- /a/ may be heard as in unstressed syllables.
- /ɔ/ may be heard as slightly more centralized when following labialized consonants in unstressed positions.
- /u/ may be heard as in unstressed syllables.
External links
- An open access collection of singing in Dobu is available through Paradisec.
- Historical open access collections of recordings in Dobu are available through Paradisec, including the Malcome Ross collection (MR1) and two Arthur Campbell collections (AC1 and AC2)
References
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