Sentani language (original) (raw)

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Papuan language spoken in Indonesia

Sentani
Native to Papua, Indonesia
Region Lake Sentani, Papua
Native speakers (30,000 cited 1996)[1]
Language family Northwest Papuan? Demta–SentaniSentani properSentani
Writing system Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 set
Glottolog nucl1632

Sentani or Buyaka is a Papuan language of Papua. It is spoken in about 30 scattered villages around Lake Sentani. Dialects are East, West, and Central (Ethnologue).

Cowan (1965), pp. 3, 5, 6 | | Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | | | -------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | | Nasal | m | n | | | | | Plosive | p ~ b | t ~ d | | k ~ q~ x | | | Fricative | f ~ ɸ | (s) | | h ~ s | | | Approximant | w | l | j | | |

Consonants marked with a tilde ⟨~⟩ are free variants. Because of the distance between [h] and [s] in the chart, [s] is marked in parentheses, being the less common (but still free) variant.

Cowan (1965), p. 4

| | Front | Central | Back | | | ------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Close | i | | u | | Close-mid | e | | | | Mid | | ə | o | | Open-mid | ɛ | | | | Open | | a | |

Central Sentani phonology from Foley (2018):[2]

Consonants

| | Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | | -------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------- | | Nasal | m | n | | | | Plosive | p | k | | | | Fricative | f | h | | | | Approximant | w | l | j | | | Rhotic | r | | | |

Vowels

| | Front | Central | Back | | | --------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Close | i | | u | | Mid | e | ə | o | | Open | æ | a | |

There are four series of pronouns. The first involves stressed pronoun forms, and "is... composed with the emphatic particle jɛ". The second involves subject, postposition, and possessive usages – their vowels are allowed to be elided. The third are stressed or substantive possessives, and sometimes reflexives. The fourth involves "proclitic possessive[s]", which may have their vowels elided; they are not full affixes.[3]

| | I | II | III | IV | | | ------ | ---- | --- | --- | -- | | 1sg | dəjɛ | da | dɛj | də | | 1pl ex | mejɛ | me | mɛj | | | 1pl in | ejɛ | (e) | ɛj | | | 2sg | wəjɛ | wa | wɛj | wə | | 2pl | məjɛ | ma | maj | mə | | 3sg | nəjɛ | na | nɛj | nə | | 3pl | nəjɛ | na | nɛj | nə |

  1. ^ Sentani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Foley, William A. (2018). "4: The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. doi:10.1515/9783110295252-004. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
  3. ^ Cowan (1965), p. 16.