| Wom | |
|---|---|
| Region | East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (12 villages) |
| Native speakers | 4,300 (2003) |
| Language family | Torricelli
|
| Writing system | Latin |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | wmo |
| Glottolog | womp1235 |
| ELP | Wom |
Wom or Wam is a Papuan language of the Torricelli language family spoken by 4,264 people (as of 2003) in East Sepik province, Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Dorsal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | labial | |||
| Plosive | p | t | k | kʷ |
| Prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑg | ᵑgʷ |
| Fricative | s | h | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ||
| Approximant | l | j | w | |
- The prenasalised plosives /ᵐb ⁿd ᵑg ᵑgʷ/ are plain word-initially.
- /s/ can be realized as word-initially.
- /h/ can be heard as intervocalically.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
Additionally, the following diphthongs can be found: /ei/, /ai/, /oi/, /au/, /ou/.
Stress is phonemic.
External links
- Paradisec has two collections with materials from Wom, one from Arthur Capell (AC1) and the other from Don Laycock (DL2)
References
- Wom at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Luoma, Pirkko; Henry, Joan; Hoel, Hanna-Marie; James, Dorothy (1999). Wom Organised Phonology Data. SIL International.
| Torricelli languages | |
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| Arapesh | |
| Maimai | |
| One (West Wapei) | |
| Marienberg | |
| Wapei | |
| Palei | |
| Urim | |
| Bogia | |
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