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Le kwoma (ou washkuk) est une langue papoue parlée en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, dans la province de Sepik oriental.

Kwoma
Pays	Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Région	Sepik oriental
Nombre de locuteurs	3 000 (en 2003)[1]
Classification par famille
- langues papoues (polyphylétique) - langues sepik - langues nukuma - kwoma
Codes de langue
IETF	kmo
ISO 639-3	kmo
Étendue	langue individuelle
Type	langue vivante
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Classification

Le kwoma fait partie des langues nukuma, un des groupes qui composent la famille des langues sepik[2].

Phonologie

Les voyelles[3] et les consonnes[4] du kwoma sont :

Voyelles

	Antérieure	Centrale	Postérieure
Fermée	i [i]	ɨ [ɨ]	u [u]
Moyenne	e [e]		o [o]
Ouverte	ɛ [ɛ]		ɔ [ɔ] ɑ [ɑ]

Consonnes

		Bilabiales	Alvéolaires	Post-alv.	Dorsales		Glottales
					Palatales	Vélaires
Occlusives	Sourde	p [p]	t [t]			k [k]	ʔ [ʔ]
	Sourde labial.	pw [pʷ]				kw [kʷ]
	Sonore prénasal.	mb [m͡b]	nd [n͡d]			ŋg [ŋ͡g]
	Sonore labial.					ŋgw [ŋ͡gʷ]
Fricative	Sourde		s [s]	ɕ [ɕ]			h [h]
	Sonore	β [β]
Affriquée	Sourde			tɕ [t͡ɕ]
	prénasal.		ntʝ [n͡t͡ʝ]
Nasale	Simple	m [m]	n [n]		ɲ [ ɲ]
	Labial.	mw [mʷ]
Roulée			r [r]
Semi-voyelle		w [w]			y [ j]

Notes et références

Sources

• (en) Anonyme, 2011, Kwoma Organised Phonology Data, Ukarumpa, SIL.

Liens externes

• (en) Fiche langue[kmo]dans la base de données linguistique Ethnologue.

• Portail des langues
• Portail de l’Océanie
• Portail de la Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée

На других языках

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[en] Kwoma language

Kwoma is a Sepik language of Papua New Guinea also known as Washkuk. The word 'Kwoma' means "hill people" (from Kwow, meaning hill, + ma, meaning people or man). Washkuk is a government name for the people of Kwoma. Linguists have the given the name 'Kwoma' as the primary name of the language, but 'Nukuma' is the specific name for the Northern dialect. Nukuma (Nu-top, Kuma-people) means people who live along the upper reaches of the Sanchi River. The speakers of Kwoma are located in the Ambunti district of the Sepik River region. There are two dialects known as Kwoma (Washkuk) and Nukuma. The Kwoma dialect or "hill people" is located in the Washkuk Hills which is a range of mountains on the north side of the Sepik. The Nukuma dialect or "headwater people" live to the north and west of the Washkuk range along the Sepik River. Kwoma is considered an endangered language with an estimated 2,925 native speakers worldwide.

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- [fr] Kwoma

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