Tanggu (Tangu, Tanggum) is a
Ramu language
The Ramu languages are a family of some thirty languages of Northern Papua New Guinea. They were identified as a family by John Z'graggen in 1971 and linked with the Sepik languages by Donald Laycock two years later. Malcolm Ross (2005) classifi ...
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 ...
.
Phonology
* /m/ can occur syllabically
̩word-initially.
* /ʁ/ is heard as
before /i/.
* /ⁿdʒ/ is pronounced
~jin the Wagi dialect.
* /ɨ/ almost always occurs only in unstressed syllables and diphthongs.
Additionally, the following diphthongs have been observed: /ia/, /ɨa/, /ai/, /ui/, /au/, /ua/. /ai/ is realised as
word-finally.
References
Ataitan languages
Languages of Madang Province
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