Language name: |
USAN |
UPSID number: |
8630 |
Alternate name(s): |
WANUMA |
Classification: |
Papuan, Trans-New Guinea |
This language has |
20 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.509534368 (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
?
b
d
g
mb
nd
Ng
s
m
n
j
w
i
E
a
O
u
^
|
Comment: |
Usan is spoken in the Adelbert Ranges, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. Plain and prenasalized voiced plosives only contrast in medial and final position., /d/ is [d] initially but an alveolar flap elsewhere. A considerable number of vowel sequences "with one mora timing" occur; these are interpreted nonetheless as vowel sequences. |
Source(s): |
Reesink, G.P. 1987. Structures and their functions in Usan: A Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. John Benjamins. |