Abelam | |
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Ambelas | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Sepik River basin |
Ethnicity | Abelam |
Native speakers | 33,000 (2004) [1] |
Sepik
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
abt |
Glottolog |
ambu1247 |
ELP | Ambulas |
Abelam (or Ambulas, Abulas) is the third and most prevalent of the Ndu languages of Sepik River region of northern Papua New Guinea. [2] Dialects are Maprik, Wingei, Wosera-Kamu, Wosera-Mamu. [1]
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
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Plosive/ Affricate |
plain | p | t | k | |
prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᶮʤ | ᵑg | |
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
Fricative | β | s | |||
Liquid | lateral | l | |||
rhotic | r | ||||
Semivowel | w | j |
( i) | ɨ | ( u) |
ə | ||
a |
[i, u] may be heard as a realization of the sequences /əj/, /əw/ or resulting in syllabic forms of /j, w/.