Selepet language
{{Short description|Papuan language of Papua New Guinea}}
{{Infobox language
|name = Selepet
|nativename =
|states = Papua New Guinea
|region = Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province
|speakers = {{sigfig|7,240|2}}
|date = 2000 census
|ref = e25
|familycolor = Papuan
|fam1 = Trans–New Guinea
|fam2 = Finisterre–Huon
|fam3 = Huon
|fam4 = Western Huon
|iso3 = spl
|glotto=sele1250
|glottorefname=Selepet
}}
Selepet (or Selepe){{Cite web |title=OLAC resources in and about the Selepet language |url=http://www.language-archives.org/language/spl |access-date=2024-01-22 |website=www.language-archives.org}} is a Papuan language spoken in Selepet Rural LLG, Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.
Evolution
{{see also|Finisterre–Huon languages#Evolution}}
Below are some reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea proposed by Pawley (2012):{{cite journal |last=Pawley |first=Andrew |authorlink=Andrew Pawley |date=2012 |journal=History, Contact and Classification of Papuan Languages |issue=Language & Linguistics in Melanesia Special Issue 2012: Part I |issn=0023-1959 |publisher=Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea |location=Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea |editor1-last=Hammarström |editor1-first=Harald |editor2-last=van den Heuvel |editor2-first=Wilco |title=How reconstructable is proto Trans New Guinea? Problems, progress, prospects |pages=88–164|hdl=1885/38602 }}
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! proto-Trans-New Guinea !! Selepet | |
| *masi ‘orphan’ | madu |
| *me(n,t)e ‘head’ | mete ‘forehead’ |
| *mV(k,ŋ)V[C] + t(e,i)- ‘vomit’ | mohat (cf. Nomu mekat ‘spittle’, Timbe mugat ‘be sick’) |
| *mVn[a]-‘be, live, stay’ | man- ‘live, dwell’ |
| *mo ‘penis’ | mɔi |
| *(m,mb)elak ‘light, lightning’ | belek |
| *kumV- ‘die’ | (cf. Burum kɔmu-) |
| *iman ‘louse’ | imen |
| *(s,nd)umu(n,t)[V] ‘hair’ | somot |
| *amu ‘breast’ | (n)am ‘breast, milk’ |
| *am(a,i) ‘mother’ | (?) (m)ɔmɔ |
| *na- ‘eat’ | ne- |
| *nVŋg- ‘know, hear, see’ | nɔgɔ- ‘hear, know, listen to s.t.’ |
| *ni ‘1PL free pronoun’ | ne(n) ‘1PL’, ne(t) ‘1DL’ |
| *n[e]i ‘bird’ | nɔi |
| *kan(a,e)ne ‘left (side)’ | kane |
| *mVn[a]-‘be, live, stay’ | man- ‘live, dwell’ |
| *mbena ‘arm’ | bɔt |
| *kani ‘foot’ | kɔi |
| *iman ‘louse’ | imen |
| *-Vn ‘1SGsubj agrmt’ | -an ‘1SG, 1PL’ |
| *ŋaŋ[a] ‘baby’ | ŋaŋa |
| *mbalaŋ ‘flame’ | balam |
| *mbilaŋ ‘tongue’ | ni-bilam |
| *sa(ŋg,k)asiŋ ‘sand’ | sak |
| *mbalaŋ ‘flame’ | balam |
| *mbilaŋ ‘tongue’ | [ni]bilim |
| *mbena ‘arm’ | (?) bot |
| *mbulikV ‘turn (oneself)’ | purik (sɔ-) |
| *imbi ‘name’ | ibi |
| *sambV ‘cloud’ | hibim ‘sky’ |
| *ambi ‘man’ | (?) ibi ‘woman’ |
| *simb(i,u) ‘guts’ | tep- ‘stomach, intestines’ |
| *si(mb,p)at[V] ‘saliva’ | (Sialum sawat, Migabac sofoʔ, Nomu sowot) |
| *kutV(mb,p)(a,u)[C] ‘long’ | kɔlip |
| *kambu ‘ashes’ | kɔu |
| *kend(o,u)p ‘fire’ | kɔlɔp |
| *nde- ‘speak’ | sɔmedial |
| *kend(o,u)p ‘fire’ | kɔlɔp |
| *ka(nd,t)(e,i)kV ‘ear’ | (?) ɔndɔp (prob. a loanword. Suter (p.c.) reconstructs pHuon Peninsula *kazap ‘ear’) |
| *tVk- ‘cut, cut off’ | tok [yap] ‘snap, break’ |
| *kutV(mb,p)(a,u)[C] ‘long’ | kɔlip |
| *kVtak ‘new’ | irak |
| *(s,nd)umu(n,t)[V] ‘hair’ | somot |
| *sa(ŋg,k)asin ‘sand’ | sak |
| *(s,nd)umu(n,t)[V] ‘hair’ | somot |
| *si(mb,p)at[V] ‘saliva’ | (Sialum sawat, Migabac sofoʔ, Nomu sowot) |
| *simb(i,u) ‘guts’ | (?) tep- ‘stomach, intestines’ |
| *sambV ‘cloud’, ‘sky’ | hibim ‘sky’ |
| *masi ‘orphan’ | madu |
| *nj(a,e,i)- ‘burn’ | si |
| *ŋga ‘2SG’ | ga |
| *nVŋg- ‘know, hear, see’ | nɔgɔ- ‘hear, know, listen to s.t.’ |
| *kend(o,u)p ‘fire’ | kɔlɔp |
| *kakV- ‘carry on shoulder’ | kaku- |
| *kutV(mb,p)(a,u)[C] ‘long’ | kalip |
| *kambu ‘ashes’ | kɔu |
| *kakV- ‘carry on shoulder’ | kaku- |
| *mbulikV ‘turn (oneself)’ | purik |
| *sa(ŋg,k)asin ‘sand’ | sak |
| *mV(k,ŋ)V[C] + t(e,i)- ‘vomit’ | mohat (Nomu mekat ‘spittle’, Timbe mugat ‘be sick’) |
| *kVtak ‘new’ | irak |
| (m,mb)elak ‘light, lightning’ | belek ‘lightning’ |
| *ok[V] ‘water’ | (?) (gel-)ok ‘rain’ |
| *mbalaŋ ‘flame’ | balam |
| *(m,mb)elak ‘light, lightning’ | belek |
| *mbilaŋ ‘tongue’ | ni-bilam |
| *mbulikV ‘turn (oneself)’ | purik |