Aghu, or Central Awyu, is a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...
of
Papua,
Indonesia
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. It may actually be two languages, depending on one's criteria for a 'language'. The two varieties are:
Mappi River Awyu (Aghu) and
Pasue River (Pasuwe River) Awyu (Nohon, ?Mitak).
Phonology
The phonology of the Aghu language:
At the ends of words, vowels may appear both long and nasalized. This occurs historically where there was a final nasal /m/ or /n/. Within words, rather than nasal vowels there are sequences of vowel plus nasal consonant which matches the articulation of the following consonant. Thus nasal vowels may be analyzed as /Vn/ or /VN/.
References
Further reading
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External links
Aghu at the Awyu–Ndumut research group at VU University AmsterdamOLAC resources in and about the Aghu languageOLAC resources in and about the Central Awyu languageOLAC resources in and about the Jair Awyu languageOLAC resources in and about the North Awyu language
Languages of western New Guinea
Awyu–Dumut languages
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