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Golin language

Golin
Region Gumine District, Simbu Province
Native speakers
(51,000 cited 1981)
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog goli1247
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Golin (also Gollum, Gumine) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.

Diphthongs that occur are /ɑi ɑu ɔi ui/. The consonants /l n/ can also be syllabic.

/bʷ ɡʷ/ are treated as single consonants by Bunn & Bunn (1970), but as combinations of /b/ + /w/, /ɡ/ + /w/ by Evans et al. (2005).

Two consonants appear to allow free variation in their realisations: [s] varies with [ʃ], and [l] with [ɬ].

/n/ assimilates to [ŋ] before /k/ and /ɡ/.

Golin is a tonal language, distinguishing high, mid, and low tone.




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