Sinaugoro language
| Sinaugoro | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Central Province |
Native speakers | 18,000 (2000 census)[1] |
Language family | Austronesian
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | snc |
| Glottolog | sina1266 |
Sinaugoro is an Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea. It is mainly spoken in the Rigo District of Central Province by some 15,000 people.[2] The language is closely related to Motu.
Grammar[]
Sinaugoro is an agglutinative language with ergative alignment and SOV word order.[3] Number is marked explicitly on the verb and freely within the noun phrase, but is not marked on the noun itself. A morphological distinction is made in Sinaugoro between the possession of alienable and inalienable nouns, and then between the alienable possession of edible and inedible objects.[4]
Verbal indexing of person and number in Sinaugoro makes freestanding personal pronouns optional. These are given below, displaying a distinction between inclusive and exclusive.
| SG | ||
| 1SG | au | |
| 2SG | goi | |
| 3SG | gia | |
| PL | ||
| 1PL.INC | gita | |
| 1PL.EXC | gai | |
| 2PL | gomi | |
| 3PL | gia |
Notes[]
- ^ Sinaugoro at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Tauberschmidt (1999), p. 1
- ^ Tauberschmidt (1999), p. 2
- ^ Tauberschmidt (1999), p. 14
- ^ Tauberschmidt (1999), p. 16-17
References[]
- Tauberschmidt, Gerhard (1999). A Grammar of Sinaugoro: an Austronesian language of the Central Province of Papua New Guinea (PDF). Pacific Linguistics Series C, Volume 143. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. doi:10.15144/PL-C143. hdl:1885/146187. ISBN 0-85883-490-1.
External links[]
- Central Papuan Tip languages
- Languages of Central Province (Papua New Guinea)
- Western Oceanic language stubs