Yessan-Mayo | |
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Yamano | |
Region | East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 2,000 (2000 census) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
yss |
Glottolog |
yess1239 |
ELP | Yessan-Mayo |
Yessan-Mayo (also known as Yesan, Mayo, and natively known as Yamano [1]) is a Papuan language spoken by 2000 people in Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Maio ( 4°12′50″S 142°40′33″E / 4.21379°S 142.675929°E) and Yessan ( 4°13′08″S 142°40′00″E / 4.219025°S 142.66658°E) villages of Yessan ward, Ambunti Rural LLG, East Sepik Province. [2] [3]
The phonology of Yessan-Mayo is described in Foley (2018) [4] as such:
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | ɨ | ||
Mid | ə | ɔ | |
Open | a |
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | labialized | ||||||
Plosive | plain | t | k | kʷ | |||
prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑg | ᵑgʷ | |||
Fricative | ɸ | s | h | ||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||
Trill | r | ||||||
Approximant | l | j | w |
Foreman (1974) [5] describes two kinds of pronouns in Yessan-Mayo: non-emphatic and emphatic pronouns.
In addition to the non-emphatic pronouns, there is also the reflexive pronoun kwarara (self), as well as the demonstrative pronouns op (this) and otop (that).
singular | dual | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1st person | an | nis | nim | |
2nd person | ni | kep | kom | |
3rd person | male | ri | rip | rim |
female | ti |
singular | dual | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1st person | arin | nisis | nirim | |
2nd person | nirin | kerip | kerim | |
3rd person | male | atar | atep | atem |
female | atat |
Yessan-Mayo | |
---|---|
Yamano | |
Region | East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea |
Native speakers | 2,000 (2000 census) [1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
yss |
Glottolog |
yess1239 |
ELP | Yessan-Mayo |
Yessan-Mayo (also known as Yesan, Mayo, and natively known as Yamano [1]) is a Papuan language spoken by 2000 people in Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Maio ( 4°12′50″S 142°40′33″E / 4.21379°S 142.675929°E) and Yessan ( 4°13′08″S 142°40′00″E / 4.219025°S 142.66658°E) villages of Yessan ward, Ambunti Rural LLG, East Sepik Province. [2] [3]
The phonology of Yessan-Mayo is described in Foley (2018) [4] as such:
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | ɨ | ||
Mid | ə | ɔ | |
Open | a |
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
plain | labialized | ||||||
Plosive | plain | t | k | kʷ | |||
prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑg | ᵑgʷ | |||
Fricative | ɸ | s | h | ||||
Nasal | m | n | |||||
Trill | r | ||||||
Approximant | l | j | w |
Foreman (1974) [5] describes two kinds of pronouns in Yessan-Mayo: non-emphatic and emphatic pronouns.
In addition to the non-emphatic pronouns, there is also the reflexive pronoun kwarara (self), as well as the demonstrative pronouns op (this) and otop (that).
singular | dual | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1st person | an | nis | nim | |
2nd person | ni | kep | kom | |
3rd person | male | ri | rip | rim |
female | ti |
singular | dual | plural | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1st person | arin | nisis | nirim | |
2nd person | nirin | kerip | kerim | |
3rd person | male | atar | atep | atem |
female | atat |