Obokuitai language
| Obokuitai | |
|---|---|
| Aliki | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | New Guinea |
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Native speakers
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120 (2000) |
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Lakes Plain
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | |
| Glottolog | obok1239 |
Obokuitai (Obogwitai) is a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia. It is named after Obogwi village.
Obokuitai, Sikaritai, and Eritai constitute a dialect cluster.
The following discussion is based on Jenison & Jenison (1991).
Unusual phonological features of Obokuitai and other Lakes Plain languages are the complete lack of nasals, even allophones, and a series of extra high or fricativized vowels that developed from loss of a following stop consonant.
The small consonant inventory is typical of Lakes Plain languages.
Obokuitai has five vowels.
Like the other Lakes Plain languages, Obokuitai is tonal. L, H, and HL pitch contours occur on monosyllabic words. A phonological analysis of the tone system remains to be completed.
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