Dorig language
| Dorig | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Vanuatu |
| Region | Gaua |
|
Native speakers
|
300 (2012) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | weta1242 |
Dorig (sometimes called Wetamut) is an Oceanic language spoken on Gaua island in Vanuatu.
Its 300 speakers live mostly in the village of Dorig (IPA: [ⁿdʊˈriɰ]), on the south coast of Gaua. Smaller speaker communities can be found in the villages of Qteon (east coast) and Qtevut (west coast).
Dorig's immediate neighbours are Koro and Mwerlap.
Dorig has 8 phonemic vowels. These include 7 short monophthongs /i ɪ ɛ a ɔ ʊ u/ and one long vowel /aː/.
The phonotactic template for a syllable in Dorig is: /CCVC/ — e.g. /rk͡pʷa/ ‘woman’;/ŋ͡mʷsar/ ‘poor’; /wrɪt/ ‘octopus’. Remarkably, the consonant clusters of these /CCVC/ syllables are not constrained by the Sonority Sequencing Principle.
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