Social:Ari language (New Guinea)

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Short description: Gogodala language of Papua New Guinea
Ari
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionAri and Serea villages, Aramia River area, Western Province.
Native speakers
50 (2000)e25
Language codes
ISO 639-3aac
Glottologarii1243[1]
Lang Status 40-SE.svg
Ari is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
Coordinates: [ ⚑ ] 7°57′S 142°24′E / 7.95°S 142.4°E / -7.95; 142.4

The Ari language is a Papuan language of the Trans–New Guinea family. According to the 2000 census, there were only 50 Ari speakers, living in the two villages of Ari and Serea in Gogodala Rural LLG.[2][3][4]

The language that most resembles Ari is the Gogodala language.

Phonology

Consonant sounds[5]
Labial Alveolar Velar
Plosive voiceless p t k
voiced b d g
prenasal ᵐb ⁿd ᵑɡ
Nasal m n
Fricative s
Rhotic ɾ
Glide w j
Vowel sounds[5]
Front Central Back
High i u
Mid e o
ɛ ɔ
Low a

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Ari". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/arii1243. 
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  3. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/village-coordinates-lookup. 
  4. Evans, Nicholas (2018). "The languages of Southern New Guinea". in Palmer, Bill. The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 641–774. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7. 
  5. 5.0 5.1 Reesink (1976)

Sources

  • Reesink, Ger P. 1976. Languages of the Aramia River area. In: Ger P. Reesink, L. Fleischmann, S. Turpeinen, Peter Lincoln. (eds.), Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19, 1–37. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.