Aoheng, or Penihing, is a Kayan language of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, one of several spoken by the Penan people.
Aoheng | |
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Penihing | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | East Kalimantan |
Native speakers | (2,600 cited 1981)[1] |
Austronesian
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | pni |
Glottolog | aohe1237 |
Phonology
editLabial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Plosive | p b | t d | tʃ (dʒ) | k (g) | ʔ | |
Fricative | s | h | ||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
Flap | ɾ | ɽ | ||||
Approximant | (w) | l | (j) |
- The consonants /dʒ g j w/ only occur in loanwords.
- /b/ can be heard as /β/ word-initially and intervocalically.
Front | Central | Back | |
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High | i | ʉ | |
Near-high | ɪ | ʊ | |
Mid | e | ə | o |
Low | a |
- /ə/ may be pronounced as [ø] or [ɔ].
References
edit- ^ Aoheng at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b Sellato, Bernard; Soriente, Antonia (2015). "The Languages and Peoples of the Müller Mountains and the Origins of Borneo's Nomads and their Languages". Wacana. 16: 339–354.