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The Ata language, also known as Pele-Ata after its two dialects, or Wasi, is a Papuan language spoken on New Britain island, Papua New Guinea. It appears to be related to neighboring Anêm, and possibly also to Yélî Dnye in a proposed Yele-West New Britain family. There are about 2000 speakers.

For other uses, see Ata language (disambiguation).
Ata
Pele-Ata
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionNew Britain
Native speakers
2,000 (2007)[1]
Language family
West New Britain
  • Ata
Language codes
ISO 639-3ata
Glottologpele1245
ELPPele-Ata
Map all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap 
Download coordinates as: KML

Ata is spoken in West Pomio-Mamusi Rural LLG, East New Britain Province, and in Talasea District, West New Britain Province.[2]


Dialects


According to Yanagida (2004), there are two dialects of Ata, a Lower dialect spoken in the lowlands and an Upper dialect spoken in the mountains.[3] The Lower dialect is spoken in Bialla Rural LLG, West New Britain Province, while the Upper dialect is spoken mostly in West Pomio-Mamusi Rural LLG, East New Britain Province:[4]

Lower dialect (in Bialla Rural LLG, West New Britain Province):

Upper dialect (in West Pomio-Mamusi Rural LLG, East New Britain Province, unless noted otherwise):

Both the lower and upper dialects are spoken in the settlement of Silanga.

There are some lexical differences between the dialects. Some examples are listed below.[3]: 71 

glossUpper AtaLower Ata
rainualilaʔiua
sweet potatototoʔokelatu
cassavamiomio, mioxa
throw somethingpaxelepei
yesiouani
the day before yesterdaymalakaumeimalaʔo
2nd person dual
independent pronoun		ngoloungongou
3rd person dual
independent pronoun		olouilou

Phonology


Phonology of the Ata language:[5]

Consonant sounds
Labial Alveolar Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive p t k ʔ
Fricative β s x
Approximant l

/s/ is pronounced as alveolo-palatal [ɕ] before /i/, /x/ is voiced as [ɣ] when occurring intervocalically.

A word-initial /i/ is realized as a [j], and a word-initial /u/ becomes a [w] when preceding /o/ or /ɑ/.

Vowel sounds
Front Back
High i iːu uː
Mid ɛ ɛːo oː
Low ɑ ɑː

Noun classes


Ata makes use of noun classes, some of which are:[6]: 792 

Below are some Ata noun class paradigms, using the noun roots lavo’o ‘stone’ and lexe ‘song’ as examples:[6]: 792 

rootlavo’o/stone/‘stone’
Class 1lavo'o-silo/stone-my/‘my stone to be used for a house’
Class 2lavo'o-xeni/stone-my/‘my stone to be used for breaking nuts’
Class 3lavo'o-xo/stone-my/‘my stone for a stone oven’
rootlexe/song/‘song’
Class 1lexe-silo/song-my/‘a song to be sung for me’
Class 2lexe-xeni/song-my/‘the song I sing’
Class 3lexe-xo/song-my/‘the song about me’

Vocabulary


Selected basic vocabulary items in Ata:[7]

glossAta
birdngiala
bloodsialuxu
bonexine
breastsusu
earsangalie
eat’ie
eggatolu
eyeiei
firenavu
giveiti; losie
golai
groundlia
legtava'a
lousemeni
manaliko
moonso'io
nameuala
onevile
road, pathvote'i
seemaisou
skyloxotolo
stonelavo'o
sunaso
tonguelevexe
teethanaxu ilaanu (anaxu = 'mouth')
treeaiinu; ovu
twotamei
waterlexa
womansema

See also



References


  1. Ata at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
  3. Yanagida, Tatsuya. 2004. Socio-historic overview of the Ata language, an endangered Papuan language in New Britain, Papua New Guinea. In Shibata Norio and Shionoya, Toru (eds.), Kan minami Taiheiyoo no gengo 3 [Languages of the South Pacific Rim 3], 61-94. Suita: Faculty of Informatics, Osaka Gakuin University.
  4. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
  5. Hashimoto, Kazuo (June 1992). Ata (Pele Ata, Wasi) Language [ATA] Kimbe – West New Britain Province (PDF). Organised Phonology Data: SIL.
  6. Stebbins, Tonya; Evans, Bethwyn; Terrill, Angela (2018). "The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 775–894. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
  7. Hashimoto (2008)

Further reading



На других языках

- [en] Ata language

[fr] Ata (langue)

L'ata, ou pele-ata, est une langue papoue parlée en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée dans la province de Nouvelle-Bretagne occidentale.

[it] Lingua pele-ata

La lingua pele-ata, anche conosciuta come ata o wasi, è una lingua parlata, da circa 2000 persone,[2] nel nordest della Nuova Britannia, isola dell'Arcipelago di Bismarck in Papua-Nuova Guinea.Vi sono due dialetti denominati pele e ata.

[ru] Ата (язык)

Ата (также известен как пеле-ата, пелеата, уасе, уаси, уасилау, васи) — язык-изолят, на котором говорят на острове Новая Британия в Папуа — Новой Гвинее. Он может быть связан с языками-изолятами анем и йеле, которые относятся к восточно-папуасским языкам. Язык имеет два диалекта: ата и пеле. На нём говорят около 2000 человек.


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