Tifal

Tifal
Pays Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée
Région Sandaun
Nombre de locuteurs 3 600 (en 2003)[1]
Classification par famille
Codes de langue
IETF tif
ISO 639-3 tif
Étendue langue individuelle
Type langue vivante
Carte
Image illustrative de l’article Tifal
Langues ok-oksapmin

Le tifal est une langue papoue parlée en Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, dans le district de Telefomin de la province de Sandaun.

Classification

Le tifal fait partie des langues ok-oksapmin, une des familles de langues de l'ensemble trans-nouvelle-guinée[2].

Phonologie

Les voyelles[3] et les consonnes[4] du tifal sont :

Voyelles

Antérieure Postérieure
Fermée i [i][iː] u [u][uː]
Moyenne o [o][oː]
Ouverte e [eː] ɑ [ɑ] ɑː [ɑː]

Consonnes

Bilabiales Labiodent. Alvéolaires Dorsales
Palatales Vélaires
Occlusives Sourde p [p] t [t] k [k]
Sonore b [b] d [d]
Fricative f [f] s [s]
Nasale m [m] n [n] ŋ [ŋ]
Latérale l [l]
Semi-voyelle w [w] y [ j]

Notes et références

  1. Selon la base de données Ethnologue
  2. Glottolog, Tifal
  3. Boush 1994, p. 2.
  4. Boush 1994, p. 1.

Sources

  • (en) Al Boush, 1994, Tifal Organised Phonology Data, Ukarumpa, SIL.
  • (en) Wilco van den Heuvel, Sébastian Fedden, 2014, Greater Awyu and Greater Ok: Inheritance or Contact?, Oceanic Linguistics 53:1, pp. 1-36.

Liens externes

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