Nakanai language
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| Nakanai | |
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| Lakalai | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
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Native speakers
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unknown (13,000 cited 1981)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nak |
| Glottolog | naka1262[2] |
Nakanai is spoken by the Nakanai tribe in West New Britain, a province of Papua New Guinea. It is an Austronesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup.
The name Nakanai is natively pronounced Lakalai, as the alveolar nasal [n] has disappeared from the phonemic inventory of the language and has been replaced by [l].
Phonology
Nakanai syllables may be of the shape V or CV, with no codas or consonant clusters to be found anywhere in the language.
References
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<references />, or <references group="..." />- Johnston, Raymond Leslie. 1980. Nakanai of New Britain: The Grammar of an Oceanic Language. Pacific Linguistics: Series B-70.
- Spaelti, Philip. 1997. Dimensions of Variation in Multi-Pattern Reduplication. Doctoral Dissertation: University of California, Santa Cruz.
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- ↑ Nakanai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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