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Bukiyip language
Arapesh language of Papua New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bukiyip (Bukiyúp), or Mountain Arapesh, is an Arapesh language (Torricelli)[1] spoken by around 16,000 people between Yangoru and Maprik[2] in the East Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea.[3] Bukiyip follows the SVO typology.[1] The Arapesh languages are known for their complex noun-phrase agreement system (Bukiyip has 18 of these noun classes).[4]
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Classification
There are two primary dialects of Bukiyip Chamaun-Yabonuh and Ilipeim-Yamil (western)[3] and two minor dialects Buki and Lohuhwim.[4] Given significant variation among dialects, linguist Robert Conrad suggests that Bukiyip is likely part of dialect chain that also involves other Arapesh languages.[2] The dialects may be further generalized as Coastal Arapesh and Mountain Bukiyip.[4][5]
Phonology
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Syllable structure
Syllabic stress is usually placed on the penultimate syllable, which has a higher pitch.
There are four contrastive intonation contours.
- Final Intonation - falling pitch on the last syllable, followed by a pause
- Non-final Intonation - level mid pitch on the last syllable, followed by a pause
- Interrogative Intonation - level mid/high pitch on the last word
- Imperative Intonation - high pitch and heavy stress throughout clause with a rapid pitch drop on the last syllable[4]
Consonants
written as: p, t, k, b, d, g, s, ch, j, h, m, n, ny, l, r, w, y[4]
Vowels
Initial vowels clusters: ou, au, ai, ia
Medial vowel clusters: e (a,o,i,u), a (u,e,i), i (é,a,e), o (u,i), uu, úo
Final vowel clusters: eo, ou, uu
written as: i, e, a, o, u, æ, é, ú[4]
Morphophonemics
Bukiyip has 18 basic rules for morphophonemic shifts (rules 8-18 primarily apply to the Chamaun-Yabonuh and Buki dialects).[4]
- VcCalv → VfCalv (e.g. p-a-chuh → pechuh)
- w + ú → u, ú + w → uw, i + ú → i (e.g. i-ú-nak → inak)
- ny + u → nyú (e.g. bolany+umu → bolanyumu)
- ú + CrVr → uCrVr, eCrVr → oCrVr (e.g. p-ú-hok → puhok)
- a + CVc → éCVc (e.g. n-a-bah →nébah)
- Vc + C + w → VrCw, where Vc is not a, (e.g. ny-ú-hwech → nyuhwech)
- Cw + Vr → CVr (e.g. éhwahw →ohohw)
- i# + i → i (e.g. i-ú-tak → itak)
- #w + é → #wo (e.g. kw-é-nak → konak)
- m# + ú → mu (e.g. m-ú-bo → mubo)
- #Vc +tVr → otVr (e.g. atúwe → otuwe)
- e# + úk → eik (e.g. napewe+-úk → napweik)
- C# + CVc → CVcCVc (e.g. chagas + búk → chagasúbúk)
- ú + C# + u → uCu (e.g. u-túl-úgún+-u → utulugunu)
- ú# + C + u# → oCu# (e.g. natalú → natalogu)
- VrCr# + ú → VrCru (e.g. chaklipom+-úk →chaklipomuk)
- u# + ú → uwu (e.g. natu + -uk → natuwuk)
- ú# + u → o (e.g. yekinú+umu → yekinomu)
The above rules use the following abbreviations:
Vr - rounded vowels
Vc - central unrounded vowels
Vu - unrounded vowels
Vf - front vowels
C - consonant
Calv - alveopalatal consonants
Cr - rounded consonants
# - morpheme boundary in phonological word
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Words
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Nouns
There are 18 noun classes with a closed set of suffixes of the form: noun nucleus + number (-unú).[4]
V1 is the first vowel in a medial vowel cluster, V2 is the second vowel in a medial vowel cluster.
Pronouns and demonstratives
Pronouns and demonstratives must agree with the noun class and have singular and plural forms, pronouns also encode proximal and distal information.[4]
Possessive pronouns have the form: pronoun + -i + unú (noun number class)
Verbs
Verb structure
Verbs have a complex structure of affixes encoding mood, object, benefactive, and direction which either have their own classes or must agree with the noun class. The structure is:[4]
Subject (n-) + Mood (u- 'irrealis', a- 'realis') + Object (unú-) + Verb Nucleus (verb root 1–6, verb stem 1-2)+ Object 2 (-unú) + Benefactive (-m 'benefactive' + -unú or -ag 'here') + Directional (-u 'displaced', -i 'toward speaker', '-uk' permanent).
Object 2 and Benefactive may not occur in all verbs.
Verb subject prefixes
Mood marker
All verbs (with the exception of class 6 have a mood marker). The realis mood (mood marker 'a-') concerns events that have happened in the past and present. The irrealis mood (mood marker 'u-') concerns future events and events that did not happen in the past (such as in the case of a mistaken memory). The imperative mood (used for commands) and interrogative mood (used for questions) are formed by clausal transformations.[citation needed]
Verb object suffixes
Verb root classes
Class 8 has a second object while class 4 only has one.
Adjectives
Adjectives consist of a root word followed by the appropriate noun-class suffix (see the noun class table).[4]
Adverbs
There are three adverb classes in Bukiyip: 'natimogúk' (all) in the irrealis mood and '-nubu' (completely) and '-gamu' (well) in the realis mood. All adverbs are inflected, and may have free or bound stems depending on which modifier slot they are placed in the clausal, phrase, or sentence syntax.[4]
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Counting system
There are two basic numeral roots 'atú-' (one) and 'bia-' (two). These numeral prefixes are added to noun root words and then undergo a morphological process (see the Morphophonemics section) that combines them.[4] For example:
atú + -p + utom → atum → otum
or
bia + -ch + batowich → biech
The numeral root 'nobati-' (four) is an exception to this assimilation pattern. In addition to the atú- and bia- numeral roots, there is also a stem éné- meaning one, an, or some depending on context.
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Phrases
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There are 23 phrase formations in Bukiyip.[4]
Verb phrases
1. Modified Verb Phrase: Modifier (class 1-2 adverb) + Head (verb class 1-7) + Modifier (class 3 adverb, adverb phrase)
2. Repeated Verb Phrase: Head (verb class 10, motion verb) + Modifier (class 3 adverb) + Head (verb class 10, '-lto') + Modifier
3. Coordinate Verb Phrase: Head (verb class 1–5, coordinate phrase) + Head (verb class 1–5, modified phrase) + Modifier
4. Motion Verb Phrase: Head (motion verb, motion verb phrase) + Head (verb class 3, coordinate verb phrase) + Modifier (adverb class 3)
Noun phrases
5. Modified Noun Phrase 1: Modifier (demonstrative, numeral phrase, quantitative stem) + Modifier (class 2 adjective, adjective phrase, nominalised clause, limiter phrase) + Possessive (possessive phrase, possessive pronoun) + Head (class 1-15 noun, coordinate noun phrase)
6. Modified Noun Phrase 2: Modifier (noun stem, class 17-18 noun, class 3 locative phrase) + Head (noun)
7. Apposition Noun Phrase: Head (apposition noun phrase, coordinate noun phrase, demonstrative, intensive phrase, class 18 noun, pronoun, temporal stem) + Apposition (clause, nominalised clause, coordinate noun phrase, modified noun phrase, class 17-18 noun, derived noun stem, pronoun, temporal stem) + Identification (pronoun)
8. Coordinate Noun Phrase: Head (apposition noun phrase, modified noun phrase, class 17 noun, pronoun) + Head (apposition noun phrase, modified noun phrase, class 17 noun, pronoun) + Coordinate ('o', 'úli', ⟨n-⟩ + a- + -nú, ⟨n-⟩ + ú- + -nú)
Modified noun phrases
9. Possessive Phrase: Head (apposition noun phrase, coordinate noun phrase, demonstrative, class 3 locative phrase, modified noun phrase, class 17-18 noun, noun stem) + Possessive (personal pronoun, '-i-')
10. Limiter Phrase: Head (adverb, demonstrative, modified noun phrase, noun stem, pronoun) + Limiter (at- + <únú>, ati)
11. Intensive Phrase: Head (pronoun) + Intensifier ('kénak', 'meho')
12. Instrumental-Benefactor Phrase: Benefactive (umu) + Head (intransitive clause, transitive clause, modified noun phrase)
13. Similarity Phrase: Similarity ('(ko)bwidou(k)') + Head (intransitive clause, transitive clause, demonstrative, pronoun, modified noun phrase) + Similarity ('-umu')
14. Accompaniment Phrase: Head (pronoun, modified noun phrase, apposition noun phrase) + Accompaniment ('nagún')
Locative phrase
15. Locative Phrase 1: Locative (locative) + Head (locative clause, locative word, class 2-3 locative phrase 2, modified noun phrase, class 18 noun) + Identifier (class 18 noun)
16. Locative Phrase 2: Head (intransitive clause, transitive clause, locative, noun, pronoun) + Locative ('-umu', '-ahah')
17. Locative Phrase 3: Head (class 2 locative) + Head (class 3 locative)
Temporal phrase
18. Temporal Phrase 1: Head (temporal stem) + Temporal ('-abali')
19. Temporal Phrase 2: Modifier ('húlúkati-mu) + Head (temporal word)
20. Serial Temporal Phrase: Head (temporal word) + Head (temporal word)
Numeral phrase
21. Numeral Phrase: Head (modified noun phrase, numeral stem) + Head (numeral stem) + Head (numeral stem)
Interrogative phrase
22. Interrogative Phrase: Modifier (interrogative word) + Head (class 1-14 noun)
Adjective/adverb phrase
23. Adjective Phrase: Head (adjective stem) + Head (adjective stem) 1-14 noun
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