Golin language

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Golin
Spoken in:	Gumine District, Simbu Province
Total speakers:	51,105 (1981)
Language family:	Trans-New Guinea  Chimbu-Wahgi   Chimbu    Golin
Writing system:	Latin alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	paa
ISO 639-3:	gvf
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Golin (also Gollum, Gumine) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.

Contents 1 Phonology 1.1 Vowels 1.2 Consonant 1.3 Tone 2 References 3 External links

[edit] Phonology

[edit] Vowels

	Front	Back
High	ɪ ɪː	ʊ ʊː
Mid	ɛ ɛː	ɔ ɔː
Low		ɑ ɑː

Diphthongs that occur are /ɑi ɑu ɔi ui/. The consonants /l n/ can also be syllabic.

[edit] Consonant

		Bilabial		Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
		Plain	Labialized			Plain	Labialized
Nasal		m		n
Plosive	voiceless	p		t		k
	voiced	b	(bʷ)	d		ɡ	(ɡʷ)
Fricative				s~ʃ
Lateral				l~ɬ
Trill				r
Approximant					j		w

/bʷ ɡʷ/ are treated as single consonants by Bunn & Bunn (1970), but as combinations of /b/ + /w/, /ɡ/ + /w/ by Evans et al. (2005).

Two consonants appear to allow free variation in their realisations: [s] varies with [ʃ], and [l] with [ɬ].

/n/ assimilates to [ŋ] before /k/ and /ɡ/.

[edit] Tone

Golin is a tonal language, distinguishing high, mid, and low tone.

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[edit] References

• Bunn, Gordon (1970). "Golin phonology". Pacific Linguistics A 23: 1–7. 
• Bunn, Gordon (1974). "Golin grammar". Working Papers in New Guinea Linguistics 5. 
• Evans, Nicholas; et al. (2005). Materials on Golin: Grammar, texts and dictionary. Parkville: The Dept. Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, The University of Melbourne. 

[edit] External links

• Ethnologue report for language code:gvf