Mali or Gaktai is a Papuan language spoken in East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.
| Mali | |
|---|---|
| Gaktai | |
| Region | New Britain |
Native speakers | (2,200 cited 1988)[1] |
Baining
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gcc |
| Glottolog | mali1284 |
| Coordinates: 4°58′13″S 152°02′37″E / 4.970382°S 152.043503°E | |
Dialects
editThere are two dialects of Mali:[2]
- Arongda dialect (standard dialect; with two groups), spoken in the mountains, including in Marunga village (4°58′13″S 152°02′37″E / 4.970382°S 152.043503°E) in Sinivit Rural LLG, East New Britain Province[3]
- Abilta dialect, spoken along the coast
Phonology
editNoun classes
editMali makes use of noun classes. Below are some Mali noun class paradigms, using the noun root amēng ‘tree’ as an example:[5]: 802
Noun class Singular Dual Plural Gloss Masculine (m) amēng-ka amēng-iom amēng ‘slender tree’ Feminine (f) amēng-ki amēng-vem amēng ‘large full grown tree’ Diminutive (dim) amēng-ini amēng-ithom amēng-ithong ‘stick’ Reduced (rcd) amēng-ēm amēng-vam amēng-vap ‘tree stump’ Flat (flat) ― ― ― ― Excised (exc) amēng-igl amēng-iglem amēng-igleng ‘plank’ Long (long) amēng-vēt amēng-imelēm amēng-imelēk ‘pole’ Extended (ext) amēng-ia amēng-inēm amēng-inēk ‘large log’ Count neutral (cn) amēng ‘wood or trees’
Bibliography
edit- Stebbins, Tonya N. (2011). Mali (Baining) grammar. ANU, Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. p. 415. ISBN 9780858836297.
- Stebbins, Tonya N.; Tayul, Julius (2012). Mali (Baining) dictionary: Mali-Baining Amēthamon Angētha Thēvaik. Studies in the Languages of Island Melanesia. Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics. p. 455. hdl:1885/9273. ISBN 9781922185006.
References
edit- ↑ Mali at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Stebbins, Tonya N. 2011. Mali (Baining) grammar. (Pacific Linguistics, 623.) Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
- ↑ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
- ↑ Palmer, Bill (2018). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area A Comprehensive Guide. De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 796–807.
- ↑ Stebbins, Tonya; Evans, Bethwyn; Terrill, Angela (2018). "The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 775–894. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.