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,
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