- Source: Tigak language
Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (in 1991) 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:
/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].
External links
Paradisec includes a number of collections with Tigak language materials.
References
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Tigak language
- Meso-Melanesian languages
- Tiang language
- Austronesian languages
- Hawaiian language
- Nauruan language
- Moriori language
- Gilbertese language
- Polynesian languages
- Tuvaluan language
