Asụsụ Hamtai

Hamtai ; Kapau
Spoken in:	Papua New Guinea
Region:	Morobe Province, Gulf Province
Total speakers:	45,000
Language family:	(specify language family under 'fam1'); Angan; Southeast; Hamtai
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	—
ISO 639-3:	hmt
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Hamtai (a na-akpọkwa Hamday ma ọ bụ Kapau ) bụ asụsụ Angan kacha nwee na Papua New Guinea . A makwaara ya dị ka Kamea, Kapau, na Watut. Olumba bụ Wenta, Howi, Pmasa'a, Hamtai kwesịrị ekwesị, na Kantiba. Edebeghị asụsụ a ruo n'afọ 2009. ^[1]

fonology

Na Hamtai, e nwere consonants iri na anọ, ụdaume 7 na ụda abụọ (ebili na ọdịda).

Udaume

Tebụlụ ụdaume na Hamtai ^[2]^[3]
	N'ihu	Central	Azu
Mechie	i /i /	i /ɨ /	ị /ị /
N'etiti etiti	e /e /		o /o /
Oghere-etiti			a, aa /ʌ /
Mepee		a /a /

Consonants

Tebụlụ ekwentị consonant na Hamtai ^[2]
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvula	Glottal
Ihu imi		m /m /	n /n /		ng /Ọ /
Plosive		p /p /	t /t /		k /k /	k̥/q /q /	' /ʔ /
Odika	kwuputara			y /j /	w /w /
Odika	ekwughi okwu				wh /w̥ /
Nke na-ese okwu	kwuputara	v /v /
Nke na-ese okwu	ekwughi okwu	f /f /					h /h /

Ntụaka

o um. Na sēs qēt o um, nana le o ralēt, na tuwegev. No mö tuwegev kal qēt, nana bun kēl

↑ "John Allen Chau: Do missionaries help or harm?", BBC News, 28 November 2018.
1 2 Healy (1981). The Phonological Complexity of Kapau. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 95.
↑ Oates (1968). Kapau pedagogical grammar, Pacific Linguistics. Canberra, Australia: The Australian National University, 7–8. DOI:10.15144/PL-C10. ISBN 0-85883-06-2-0.

[1] "John Allen Chau: Do missionaries help or harm?", BBC News, 28 November 2018.

[:0-2] 1 2 Healy (1981). The Phonological Complexity of Kapau. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics, 95.

[3] Oates (1968). Kapau pedagogical grammar, Pacific Linguistics. Canberra, Australia: The Australian National University, 7–8. DOI:10.15144/PL-C10. ISBN 0-85883-06-2-0.

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