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Seimat

Seimat
Pays Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Région Îles de l'Amirauté
Nombre de locuteurs 1 000 (en 1992)[1]
Classification par famille
Codes de langue
IETF ssg
ISO 639-3 ssg
Étendue langue individuelle
Type langue vivante

Le seimat est une langue austronésienne parlée en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, dans les îles Ninigo, situées à l'est de Manus. Il appartient à la branche malayo-polynésienne des langues austronésiennes.

Les tableaux présentent les phonèmes du seimat parlée sur l'île d'Awin[2].

Antérieure Centrale Postérieure
Fermée i [i] ĩ [ĩ] u [u] ũ [ũ]
Moyenne e [e] ẽ [] o [o] õ [õ]
Ouverte a [a] ã [ã]
    Bilabiale Dentale Latérale Palatale Vélaire Glottale
Occlusives p [p] t [t] k [k]
Fricatives s [s] x [x] h [h]
Nasales m [m] n [n] ŋ [ŋ]
Liquides l [l]
Semi-voyelle w [w] y [y]

Notes et références

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  1. Selon Ethnologue.com
  2. Blust, 1998, p.302.
  • (en) Blust, Robert, Seimat Vowels Nasality: A Typological Anomaly, Oceanic Linguistics, 37:2, pp. 298-322, 1998.

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