Dusner language
Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.
| Dusner | |
|---|---|
| Native to | West Papua, Indonesia |
| Region | Cenderawasih Bay |
Native speakers | 3 (2011)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dsn |
| Glottolog | dusn1237 |
| ELP | Template:Endangered Languages Project |
| Linguasphere | Template:Infobox language/lingualist |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Template:Infobox language/lingualist | |
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:InfoboxImage/data' not found. Dusner language is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. | |
| Lua error in Module:Location_map at line 526: Unable to find the specified location map definition: "Module:Location map/data/Indonesia Western New Guinea" does not exist. | |
| Coordinates: Lua error: callParserFunction: function "#coordinates" was not found. | |
Page Template:Infobox/styles-images.css has no content.Script error: No such module "Check for conflicting parameters".
Dusner is a language spoken in the village of Dusner in the province of West Papua, Indonesia. Dusner is highly endangered, and has been reported to have just three remaining speakers.[2][1][3]
Sociolinguistic situation
The language is highly endangered with only three speakers reported to be remaining.[2][1][3] In 2011, researchers from Oxford University's Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics began a project to document the vocabulary and grammar of the language, in collaboration with UNIPA (State University of Papua) and UNCEN (Cenderawasih University, Papua).[4][5] The project outputs were a vocabulary, a published grammar,[2] and a website documenting the language.
Phonology
The phoneme inventory of Dusner consists of five vowels and 19 consonants (five of which are only attested in loanwords from Indonesian/Papuan Malay).[2]
| front | back | |
|---|---|---|
| high | i | u |
| mid | e | o |
| low | a |
| labial | alveolar | palatal | velar | glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nasal | m | n | (ɲ) | ŋ | ||
| plosive/ affricate |
voiceless | p | t | (t͡ʃ) | k | |
| voiced | b | d | (d͡ʒ) | g | ||
| fricative | β | s | (h) | |||
| liquid | r (l) | |||||
| glide | w | j | ||||
(Phonemes in parentheses in the table are only attested in loanwords from Papuan Malay)
There is no tone in the language. The phonology of the language has a high number of complex syllable onsets, some of them contravening the Sonority Sequencing Principle.
Morphology
Page Module:Message box/ambox.css has no content.
![[icon]](/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section is empty. You can help by adding to it. (May 2019) |
References
Page Template:Reflist/styles.css has no content.
- ^ a b c Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Malvern, Jack (21 April 2011). "Last few speakers of Indonesian language Dusner nearly wiped out by flood, volcano". The Australian. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
- ^ a b c d e f Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dalrymple, Mary; Mofu, Suriel (2012). Dusner. LINCOM Europa. ISBN 9783862882786.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."April 21, 2011: articles on the Dusner language, spoken by 3 last speakers". SOROSORO: So the languages of the world may live on!. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Alleyne, Richard (2011-04-21). "Oxford University mission to save a language spoken by three people". Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2011-04-24. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Multimodal language documentation for Dusner, an endangered language of Papua". University of Oxford, Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
External links
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Multimodal language documentation for Dusner, an endangered language of Papua". University of Oxford, Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
Template:Halmahera–Cenderawasih languages Template:Eastern Malayo-Polynesian languages Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Navbox/configuration' not found.
