Language name: |
YESSAN-MAYO |
UPSID number: |
8632 |
Alternate name(s): |
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Classification: |
Papuan, Sepik-Ramu |
This language has |
20 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.325166297 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: |
kW
th
kh
mb
nd
Ng
NgW
P
h
s
m
n
r
l
j
w
i_
3
a
a_)
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Comment: |
Yessan-Mayo is spoken upriver from Ambunti, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Stress is initial except when /a/ occurs in a subsequent syllable and attracts stress to that syllable. Vowel allophones are very variable. Rounded allophones of central vowels occur before and after /w/ and after labialized velars. Fronted allophones occur contiguous to /i/ and, often, with bilabials. |
Source(s): |
Foreman, Velma and Helen Marten. 1973. Yessan-Mayo phonemes. In Phonologies of Three Papua New Guinea Languages (Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages 2). Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ukarumpa. |