Apalɨ (Apal), or Emerum, 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
Madang Province
Madang is a province of Papua New Guinea. The province is on the northern coast of mainland Papua New Guinea and has many of the country's highest peaks, active volcanoes and its biggest mix of languages. The capital is the town of Madang.
D ...
,
Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...
. Akɨ and Acɨ are two dialects that are quite different from each other.
Phonology
Vowels
Evolution
Below are some reflexes of
proto-Trans-New Guinea proposed by
Pawley (2012).
;Sources abbreviations
*(W) = Wade (n.d.), Akɨ dialect
*(Z) = Z’graggen (1980), Acɨ dialect
[Z’graggen, John A. 1980. ''A comparative word list of the Southern Adelbert Range languages, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea''. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.]
References
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Sogeram languages
Languages of Madang Province