| Language name: | WAHGI |
| UPSID number: | 8628 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Papuan, Trans-New Guinea |
| This language has | 23 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.418008291 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p t k mb nd Ng tDs ndDz hlF hLF m nD n N j w i I "e a O u hlDF |
| Comment: | Wahgi is spoken in the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. It is analyzed as having word-level high, low and rising tone patterns and also stress (Phillips 1976). The i/I contrast seems marginal and may depend on tone. Laterals do not occur word-initially and are voiceless fricatives or affricates finally; Phillips reports them as varying with voiced fricatives medially. Ladefoged, Cochran and Disner (1977) report voiced lateral approximants in medial position. |
| Source(s): | Phillips, D.J. 1976. Wahgi Phonology and Morphology. Pacific Linguistics series B, no. 36. |