Organised Phonology Data

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1 Organised Phonology Data Kaulong Language [PSS] Kandrian West New Britain Province Oceanic; North New Guinea Cluster; SW New Britain Network; Pasismanua Chain Population census: 4000 (1990) Major villages: Umbi, Sangkiap, Awat, Asiam, Esaihi, Mihak, Utkumbu, Aka, Au, Lapalam, Arhi, Senemi, Angelek, Pomugu, Amunsong, Poepi, Lauring Linguistic work done by: SIL Data checked by: Throop (1992) Phonemic and Orthographic Inventory b d e h i k l m n o p r s t u a b,mb d,nd e g,ngg h i,y k l m n ng o p r s t u,w w A B D E G H I,Y K L M N Ng O P R S T U,W W Consonants Bilab LabDen Dental Alveo Postalv Retro Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyn Glottal Plosive p t k Nasal m n Trill Tap/Flap r Fricative s h Lateral Fricative Approx Lateral Approx Ejective Stop Implos l / b/ / d/ prenasalized bilabial plosive prenasalized alveolar plosive / / prenasalized velar plosive p put 'middle part' lapat 'sticky' hip 'hunt' plok 'sprout' kaphos 'lung' b but sambal 'stem of betelnut pepper' 'close'

2 Kaulong OPD Printed: August 25, 2004 Page 2 m mon namak tum mlut emsal 'be suspended' 'sand' 'pile up' 'roofing' 'plant sp.' s sut 'flow' tasu 'father's sister' kas 'tear, rip' slok 'loosen' esma 'fish' wi 'man' ewi 'you hit' wlek 'cause to stand upright' kuhwah 'spit betelnut' t tus 'stretch out' etak 'you cut' pit 'stand' mutwuk 'vomit' d dus enda 'cause to work hard' 'thing' n non 'put down into' pana 'breadfruit' sun 'taro' nlik 'cold' tonmi 'insult, belittle' r rere 'drive away' kara kut 'very much' karsun 'be angry' k kus 'prune' sokol 'puddle' tik 'count' klat 'cut' iksi 'sneeze' gus songgot 'have a tantrum' 'have a cough' ngon 'you (sg)' yanga 'throughout' sung 'adhere' enghik 'blood' h hun 'die' ahi 'here (emphatic)' kah 'pinch, grasp' hmit 'wing' tahma 'snake' l ling 'calm' wala 'female' sal 'have a sore' klat 'cut' welmuk 'cucumber' Vowels i e u o i isa 'grandfather' yanga 'throughout' tik 'count' api 'from where' epia 'ashes' e etak 'you cut' pet 'follow' ere 'who?' kien 'scrape sago' aku 'not' tah 'spread out' pana 'bradfruit' kaol 'coastal region' u ulil 'foolish' sun 'taro' inu 'mother (voc.)' pua 'foreigner'

3 Kaulong OPD Printed: August 25, 2004 Page 3 o. nok 'be unripe' po 'they' koak 'frog sp.' ii kiin 'his / her leg' u kaun yahaung ui kuin ue hueng 'hide' 'pig tusk' 'give off smoke' 'crippled, lame' io kiong 'use indecent language' u kuat 'tremble, shake' iu kiuk 'strangle oneself by hanging' uo kuok 'become rotten' ei eimos 'plant sp.' uu huum 'tree sp.' i tai e kaek 'chop down' 'be stuck' oi hoin pokoin 'child' 'his / her / its bone' naak 'canoe' oo yook 'set out on a journey' /ei/ /ee/ / i/ / e/ / / / u/ /oi/ /oo/ Palatalization: /io/ /iu/ Labialization: /u / /ue/ /ui/ /uo/ Suprasegmentals (tone, stress, length) Syllable Patterns V u 'and' e.ran 'liver' wi.e.suk 'my brotherinlaw' VV ei.mos 'plant sp.' VC in 'be at' en.da 'thing' e.ut 'rib' CV sa 'tree' la.pat 'sticky' em.ku.sin 'corpse' a.ku 'not' VVC eip 'wind' CVV hau 'cry' sui.ung 'table' to.pi.roi.sap 'yesterday' e.pio 'you scold' CVVC kaun 'hide' a.wo.peep.ngin 'boldly' po.koin 'his bone' CVC kum 'work' pon.wal 'two' mu.lus.ngin 'ground' nu.hum 'big' CCV phu 'compete' CCVV phai 'turn around' CCVC plok 'sprout up' a.wo.mlus.ngi.nan 'easily' ko.klong 'hard' CCVVC mlaeng 'light' Conventions: Phonological / / is pronounced [w] preceding back vowels and [ ] preceding front vowels. /t/ weakens to [ ] between vowels in rapid speech.

4 Kaulong OPD Printed: August 25, 2004 Page 4 Conventions: Orthographic Prenasalized plosives / b d / are written < b d g > word initially and < mb nd ngg > word medially. The vowels / u / and /i / are written < w > and < y > syllable initially when nonsyllabic. Transcription of a recorded passage / min n t m hi hi n t po sik i n siri in pi r po sik i n ure m hi t ku li pi r po sik i n emi hi look m hi ko m li hi u p li nuk uu n u hi u elik t n u uer uilin ti hi ko m l i hi li li emon pir e h kh k uo l ino t l ino tin imen nhum p li kus li m li pir mi ehul u uu s pluk imur s s t t siri li hul eki tin h kh k uo l ino men m hi pir e m r n sisi po ki s hi ph i t ku emon h kh k uo el n m li ku u mi ehul tin u uu s tin s hi hi pir e min t sisi li m hi lek p li ko pir u hi ples po s uilin m hi u elik t n si kuk ti / < Minan ta ma hiang hiangan ta, po sik ian a Siria in pi ra po sik ian Aure ma hiang taku li pi ra po sik ian emi. Hiang look ma hiang ko ma li. Hiang wa pali nuk uwan u hiang wa elik tan ung wer wilin ti hiang ko ma li. Hiang li li emon pir e hakhak wo lavino ta. Lawino tin imen nhum pa. Li kus li ma li pir mi ehul ung uwa sangga apluk imur sasat ta. ASiria li hul eking tin hakhak wo lawino men ma hiang pir e maran sisi po ki sa hiang phaing taku emon hakhak wo elan ma li ku ung mi ehul tin ung uwa sa tin sangga hi. Hiang pir e min ta sisi li ma hiang wlek pali ko pir u hiang ples po sa wilin ma hiang wa elik tan si kuk ti. Si hiang a Siria mili si pur elik nhum ta si pir po sangga tin i ma ko pir mi lumus. Hiang si li hiang pol ta ehul kut ma hiang pong epo lawino. Si hiang si in e wawangan mi ehul ma lawino wur thod si kuk. Li maran kon hiang kur u hiang yon li timen. Lawino suk si engin si li sung wo hiang asiria mi ehul tin imen. Hiang maran li sop epon taku li hiang ku in ani li, ti ma hiang pir engul si li lais hiang. Lawino lais hiang asiria pir koli wur kiin li pol ili mhi hiang. Li lais hiang li pi om kur ma hiang pir e mirmir to li mi ehul uwa sangga. ASiria pir li ma hiang mili lup to lawino uwa sa kur ma hiang ko epo pi mulus kur. Wulong ko li ma wulong ko phae ma wulong nuk sik ira sangga poplir tin nhum men weh nuk po ewi wulong kur men. Elop poplir kukium lawino po asiria pir koli wur kii hiang weh li iang ili mhi hiang kur ma li misur tin nok men kekien hurwal. Si wulong phae li mbuk koli mulus ma hiang ko maran ain ma hiang miyun kore ma hiang nuk. Lawino mili in e papias amen li ma li mulpas po asiria kur ma li li nuk e hun li pir timen tumen, u hiang nuk ewi ngong kur timen. Hiang nuk li ma hiang maran ngem li kon li hiang teng si ma hiang li nak pali tin hiang wlek i ko pir men. Si hiang wai ma hiang li psong lawino pur mulus ma hiang wlek i li ma lawino ung e solsol pur amen. Si hiang mili wa elik tan si kuk wer wilin kur ma hiang li yansal ira so ma hiang li epo pi emi kur aku. Kur khamen. > ' Once there was an old man whose name was Siria who was at a place called Aure and wanted to go to a place called Mi. He put his spear on his shoulder and his basket under his arm and he set out. He went and after a while there was a bird crying out because of a python. The python was very big. It had coiled itself and was in a hole in the fork of a huge Tahitian Chestnut tree with lots of ridges at its base. As Siria was going he heard the bird cry out because of the python and he stood looking up into the top of the tree. He thought that the bird was crying out because of a tree kangaroo and that it was sitting inside the hole in the shoulder of the Tahitian Chestnut tree there. He stood thinking to himself and finally stuck his spear upright into the ground and borke off a branch from the tree and hung his basket on it while he went over and climbed up a large vine which hung from the Tahitian Chestnut tree and was rooted in the ground. He climbed until he reached the hole and he did not know about the python, and he began to bang around inside the hole and the python raised up its head. It saw him and he saw it. The python took hold of Siria, confident that it could overcome him. He looked for a way that he could go to escape, and so he just stood and the snake coiled around him. The python coiled around him from his ankles to his head. After it had finished coiling around him he stood swaying with it inside the hole in the shoulder of the tree. Siria stood for a while and then jumped down with the python from the shoulder of the three toward the ground. They fell down and turned horizontally and there was a large tree ridge of the Tahitian Chestnut tree right under them. The python was crushed between Siria and the ridge all the way from Siria's ankle to his head, and his backbone with was soft broke apart. And they turned and crashed to the cround and he kept his eyes closed and held his breath and lay there. The python relaxes itself until it has let go of Siria completely and it goes and lays down and dies over there. He layed there and after a while he opened his eyes slightly and saw it. He jumped up and he pulled up the spear which he had stuck upright in the ground, and he

5 Kaulong OPD Printed: August 25, 2004 Page 5 took it and angrily shot the snake on the ground. And he stuck the spear through the python and the python was writhing on it there. And he went back and got his handbag and put it under his arm and he was angry with himself as he went along the path and he went toward Mi now a very fortunate man. It is finished now.' Bibliography Throop, Craig Organized Phonology Data for Kaulong Language. Ms, SIL Ukarumpa.