Language name and locationː Wo'oi, Yapen, Papua, Indonesia [Refer to Ethnologue]
言名称和分布地区: 沃奧伊, 印尼巴布亚省亚彭岛东部沃 奧伊村及維納普村

 

1. ko'risi

21.  pya rehi heha korisi

2. 'koru

22.  pya rehi heha koru

3. 'toru

23.  pya rehi heha toru

4. 'mwana

24.  pya rehi heha mwana

5. diŋ

25.  pya rehi heha diŋ

6. 'wonaŋ

26.  pya rehi heha wonaŋ

7. 'itu

27.  pya rehi heha itu

8. 'waru

28.  pya rehi heha waru

9. syu

29.  pya rehi heha syu

10. 'hura

30.  pya rehi heha hura

11. hura heha korisi

40.  pya koru

12. hura heha koru

50.  pya koru heha hura

13. hura heha toru

60.  pya toru

14. hura heha mwana

70.  pya koru heha hura

15. hura heha diŋ

80.  pya mwana

16. hura heha wonaŋ

90.  pya mwana heha hura

17. hura heha itu

100. pya diŋ

18. hura heha waru

200. pya 'hura

19. hura heha syu

1000. pya diŋ βe̠ hura

20. pya 'rehi (litː pya <man)

2000. pya diŋ βe̠ hura pya diŋ heha koru

 

Linguist providing data and dateː Dr. Yusuf Sawaki, Department of Linguistics, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. July 27, 2009.
供资料的语言学家: Dr. Yusuf Sawaki. 2009 年 7 月 27 日.

 

Other comments: Wooi, Wo'oi or Woi is spoken by about 1,800 speakers in Wooi and Wainap villages, west Yapen island,   Papua province. Wooi has a vigesimal system. The word ''pya'' is derived from ''one person''. I haven’t done further analysis on phonemic system and phonology of the language so the pattern and consonant and vowel inventories I give are still tentative and they are needed to be investigated in detail. For instance, the sound [ø] and [N] are found but they are appeared to be restricted and need further investigation whether they are allophones or phonemes. The basic syllabic stress is in the penultimate position (here I bold the syllable being stressed).
Wooi Phonetic Charts:
Consonant Inventory (Preliminary analysis)

 

 Labial

Alveolar

  Palatal

 Velar

Labiovelar Glottal

Stops

  p,  b

   t, d

  c    

 k

   ʔ

Nasals

      m

      n

 

 

   
Fricatives         β    s        h

Trill

 

         r

 

 

   

Approximants

        

  

  j

 

 w  

 

 The vowel inventories (preliminary analysis)

 

Front

Mid

Back

Close

    i

 

   u

Mid

    e

 

   o

Open

 

  a

 

 


 

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