Hurd (1963), there are three identified dialects: Central Rotokas ("Rotokas Proper"), Aita Rotokas, and Pipipaia; with a further dialect spoken in Atsilima...
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occurs before I and in the name Rotokas) T: [t] (never occurs before I) V: [b] or [β] Here is a sample of written Rotokas: Osireitoarei avukava iava ururupavira...
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Rotokas may refer to: Rotokas language, a language spoken in Papua New Guinea Rotokas alphabet, the alphabet used to write the Rotokas language Rotokas...
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The Pirahã language is one of the phonologically simplest languages known, comparable to Rotokas (New Guinea) and the Lakes Plain languages such as Obokuitai...
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Occlusive (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
Chimakuan, Salishan, and Wakashan languages near Puget Sound lack nasal occlusives [m] and [n], as does the Rotokas language of Papua New Guinea. In some African...
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closely-related Rotokas and Eivo (Askopan) languages, together with two languages that are more distantly related: Keriaka (Ramopa) Konua (Rapoisi) Rotokas branch...
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a. Eivo) is an East Papuan language of Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea. It is one of several languages in the area that go by the name...
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Nasal consonant (section Languages without nasals)
is known to occur are in Melanesia. In the central dialect of the Rotokas language of Bougainville Island, nasals are only used when imitating foreign...
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Pirahã people (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
that recursion is a feature which all human languages must have. Pirahã is perhaps second only to Rotokas in New Guinea for the distinction of having...
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Linguistics. Firchow, Irwin B. and Jacqueline Firchow, compilers. 2008. Rotokas-English dictionary. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics. Evans, Bethwyn...
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Phoneme (category Articles containing Icelandic-language text)
language Tauade each have just seven, and Rotokas has only six. !Xóõ, on the other hand, has somewhere around 77, and Ubykh 81. The English language uses...
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(river), a tributary of the Olt in Romania Aita, a dialect of the Rotokas language All India Tennis Association r/AmItheAsshole or AITA, a subreddit Aita...
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the world, equal to the Pirahã and Rotokas languages. The small consonant inventory is typical of Lakes Plain languages. Obokuitai does have some more sounds...
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suprasegmental. Some languages have only a few phonemes, for example, Rotokas and Pirahã language with 11 and 10 phonemes respectively, whereas languages like Taa...
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ISO/IEC 8859-2 (section Language coverage)
can be used for the following languages: Albanian Bosnian Croatian Czech Finnish German Hungarian Polish Romanian Rotokas Serbian Latin Slovak Slovene...
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of Lithuania Rotokas – Rotokas Spoken in: Bougainville part of Papua New Guinea Sadri – सादरी (नागपुरी), ସାଦ୍ରୀ, সাদরি Official language in: India Sámi...
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code for Rondonópolis Airport, Brazil ROO, ISO 639-3 code for the Rotokas language, spoken on the island of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea Roo bar or...
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Latin alphabet (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
English alphabet. These Latin-script alphabets may discard letters, like the Rotokas alphabet, or add new letters, like the Danish and Norwegian alphabets....
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as having anywhere from 87 to 164 consonants. Languages at the low end of the spectrum (Piraha, Rotokas) and especially the high end (Ubykh, Gǀui, ǂʼAmkoe...
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Consonant (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
virtually all languages have one or more nasals, though a very few, such as the Central dialect of Rotokas, lack even these. This last language has the smallest...
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spelling reform), Rotokas and Albanian. It may also be used with the German language, though it's missing uppercase ẞ. German-language texts encoded with...
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Voiced bilabial nasal (category Articles containing Kung-language text)
independent nasal phonemes altogether, such as Quileute, Makah, and Central Rotokas. Features of the voiced bilabial nasal: Its manner of articulation is occlusive...
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linguistic names. Language portal Constructed language and List of constructed languages Language (for information about language in general) Language observatory...
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Lojban Luxembourgish Malay Manx Norwegian Occitan Portuguese Rhaeto-Romanic Rotokas Scottish Gaelic Scots Southern Sami Spanish Swahili Swedish Tagalog Toki...
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Bougainville Island (section Languages)
Polynesian language is spoken, Takuu. The Papuan languages are confined to the main island of Bougainville. These include Rotokas, a language with a very...
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Sibilant (category Articles with Portuguese-language sources (pt))
include most Australian languages, and Rotokas, and what is generally reconstructed for Proto-Bantu. Languages with fricatives but no sibilants, however...
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Linguistic universal (redirect from Language universal)
Lushootseed and Rotokas are examples of the rare languages which truly lack nasal consonants as normal speech sounds. Everett, Daniel (2012). Language the cultural...
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Voiced dental, alveolar and postalveolar nasals (category Articles with Portuguese-language sources (pt))
(however, these languages all have [ŋ]. An example of a language without [n] and [ŋ] is Edo). There are some languages (e.g. Rotokas) that lack both [m]...
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Autonomous Region of Bougainville (redirect from Languages of Bougainville)
Austronesian and non-Austronesian languages are also spoken. The region includes several Polynesian outliers where Polynesian languages are spoken. Geographically...
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default in Microsoft Windows for English and many Romance and Germanic languages including Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German (though missing uppercase...
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