Golin language

"Golin" redirects here. For other uses, see Golin (disambiguation).
Golin
Region Gumine District, Simbu Province
Native speakers
(51,000 cited 1981)[1]
Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3 gvf
Glottolog goli1247[2]

Golin (also Gollum, Gumine) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Vowels

Front Back
High ɪ ɪː ʊ ʊː
Mid ɛ ɛː ɔ ɔː
Low ɑ ɑː

Diphthongs that occur are /ɑi ɑu ɔi ui/. The consonants /l n/ can also be syllabic.

Consonant

Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar
plain lab. plain Late. plain lab.
Nasal m n
Stop voiceless
/voiced
p
b

(bʷ)
t
d
k
ɡ

(gʷ)
Fricative s~ʃ ɬ~
ɬ
Approximant j w
Trill r

/bʷ ɡʷ/ are treated as single consonants by Bunn & Bunn (1970), but as combinations of /b/ + /w/, /ɡ/ + /w/ by Evans et al. (2005).

Two consonants appear to allow free variation in their realisations: [s] varies with [ʃ], and [l] with [l].

/n/ assimilates to [ŋ] before /k/ and /ɡ/.

Tone

Golin is a tonal language, distinguishing high, mid, and low tone.

References

  1. Golin at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Golin". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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