Ari language (New Guinea)
| Ari | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Ari and Serea villages, Aramia River area, Western Province. |
Native speakers | 50 (2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aac |
| Glottolog | arii1243 |
| ELP | Ari |
 Ari is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
| Coordinates: 7°57′S 142°24′E / 7.950°S 142.400°E | |
The Ari language is a Papuan language of the Trans–New Guinea family. According to the 2000 census, there were only 50 Ari speakers, living in the two villages of Ari and Serea in Gogodala Rural LLG.[1][2][3]
The language that most resembles Ari is the Gogodala language.
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k |
| voiced | b | d | g | |
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |
| Nasal | m | n | ||
| Fricative | s | |||
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||
| Glide | w | j | ||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| ɛ | ɔ | ||
| Low | a |
References
- ^ a b Ari at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
- ^ Evans, Nicholas (2018). "The languages of Southern New Guinea". 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. 641–774. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
- ^ a b Reesink (1976)
Sources
- Reesink, Ger P. 1976. Languages of the Aramia River area. In: Ger P. Reesink, L. Fleischmann, S. Turpeinen, Peter Lincoln. (eds.), Papers in New Guinea Linguistics No. 19, 1–37. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.