Ngalum language
{{Short description|Language in Indonesia}}
{{Distinguish|text = the Ngaalam language}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Ngalum
|nativename=Sibil, Ngalum Weng{{Cite web|last=Mimin|first=Imanuel H.|title=Mengenal Suku Ngalum Ok di Pegunungan Bintang|url=https://suarapapua.com/2019/06/08/mengenal-suku-ngalum-ok-di-pegunungan-bintang|access-date=2020-06-12|website=suarapapua.com|language=id}}
|region=Highland Papua, Sandaun
|ethnicity = Ngalum
|speakers={{sigfig|18,000|1}}
|date=1981–1987
|ref=e18
|familycolor=Papuan
|fam1 = Trans–New Guinea
|fam2 = Central & South New Guinea ?
|fam3 = Ok
|fam4 = Ngalum languages
|iso3=szb
|glotto=ngal1298
|glottorefname=Ngalum
}}
Ngalum is the most populous of the Ok languages in Highland Papua and Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
= Consonants =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! colspan="2" | |
| colspan="2" |Nasal
|{{IPAlink|m}} |{{IPAlink|n}} | |{{IPAlink|ŋ}} |
|---|
| rowspan="2" |Plosive
|{{IPAlink|p}} |{{IPAlink|t}} | |{{IPAlink|k}} |
| voiced
|{{IPAlink|b}} |{{IPAlink|d}} | | |
| colspan="2" |Fricative
| |{{IPA link|s}} | | |
| colspan="2" |Trill
| |{{IPAlink|r}} | | |
| colspan="2" |Lateral
| |{{IPAlink|l}} | | |
| colspan="2" |Approximant
|{{IPA link|w}} | |{{IPA link|j}} | |
- /k/ can also be heard as [ɡ] in word-medial position.{{Cite book |last=Healey |first=Alan |title=The Ok Language Family in New Guinea |publisher=Australian National University |year=1964}}
= Vowels =
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Central and South New Guinea languages}}
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea}}
{{Languages of Indonesia}}
Category:Languages of Sandaun Province
Category:Languages of Western New Guinea
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