Sinaugoro is an Austronesian language of
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 ...
. It is mainly spoken in the
Rigo District
Rigo District is a district of Central Province in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the four administrative districts that make up the province.
Local-level government areas
* Rigo Central Rural
* Rigo Coastal Rural
* Rigo Inland Rural
Town ...
of
Central Province by some 15,000 people. The language is closely related to
Motu.
Writing system
Grammar
Sinaugoro is an agglutinative language with ergative alignment and SOV word order.
Number is marked explicitly on the verb and freely within the noun phrase, but is not marked on the noun itself.
A morphological distinction is made in Sinaugoro between the possession of alienable and inalienable nouns, and then between the alienable possession of edible and inedible objects.
Verbal indexing of person and number in Sinaugoro makes freestanding personal pronouns optional. These are given below, displaying a distinction between inclusive and exclusive.
Notes
References
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External links
Sinaugoro phonologySinaugoro dictionary*
Paradisec
The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel-to ...
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multiple links to Sinaugoro language materials
Central Papuan Tip languages
Languages of Central Province (Papua New Guinea)
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