Fore language
| Fore | |
|---|---|
| Nativeto | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Goroka District, Eastern Highlands Province |
| Ethnicity | Fore |
Native speakers | (30,000 cited 2000)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | for |
| Glottolog | fore1270 |
Fore or Foré (/ˈfɔːreɪ/ FOR-ay [2] ) is a Kainantu-Goroka language spoken in the Goroka District of Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
[edit ]The consonants of Fore are as follows:[3]
| Bilabial | Dental/Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | Plain | p | t̪ | k | ʔ | |
| Prenasalized | mp | n̪t̪ ~nt | ŋk | |||
| Nasals | m | n̪~n | ||||
| Fricative | s̪~s | |||||
| Approximants | w | j | ||||
All the dental consonants can vary to alveolar, except /t̪/ which is always dental. /p/, /t̪/, and /k/ are pronounced as /b~β/, /ɾ~l/, and /g~ɣ/ between vowels, and /p~ɸ/, /t̪~t/, /k~x/ word initially/.[4] Velar consonants are labialized after rounded vowels. /j/ is often pronounced as a fricative /ʝ/.
Fore has six vowels:
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | eː | ʌ | oː |
| Open | aː |
It also has four diphthongs: ae, ao, ai, and au.
Fore has a pitch accent system. Each syllable is either accented or unaccented. Multiple accented syllables can occur in the same word, but they cannot be adjacent to each other.
External links
[edit ]- Paradisec includes collections with Fore language materials
References
[edit ]- ↑ Fore at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
- ↑ Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
- ↑ Graham Scott. 1977. The Fore Language of Papua New Guinea. (Doctoral dissertation, Australian National University; xvi+244pp.) https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/c1e29047-94be-4757-a1d1-6679c850e3c9/content
- ↑ Fatkhiyati, Nurrahma (2023年02月19日). "Morphological process found in Fore language in Papua New Guinea". Lililacs Journal. 3 (1): 15–23. doi:10.21009/lililacs.031.02 . ISSN 2807-8845.
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