Amele language

Not to be confused with Aimele language.

Amele (Amele: Sona) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Huar, Jagahala and Haija.

Amele
Sona
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province
Native speakers	(5,300 cited 1987)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Madang Croisilles linkage Mabuso? Gum Amele
Language codes
ISO 639-3	aey
Glottolog	amel1241

Amele is notable for having 32 possessive classes,^[2] over 69,000 finite forms and 860 infinitive forms of the verb.^[3]

Phonology

Amele has 5 vowels: /i, ɛ, æ, u, ɔ/.^[4]

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n
Stop	voiceless		t		k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d		g
Fricative		f	s	ʝ		h
Approximant			l

Grammar

Amele has seven tense-aspect categories, including four past tenses:^[5]

• past habitual
• remote past
• yesterday’s past
• today’s past
• plus present
• future
• relative future