Yessan-Mayo language
{{Short description|Papuan language of Papua New Guinea}}
{{distinguish|Mayo language}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Yessan-Mayo
|nativename=Yamano
|region=East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea
|speakers={{sigfig|1990|2}}
|date=2000 census
|ref=e25
|familycolor=Papuan
|fam1=Sepik
|fam2=Tama
|iso3=yss
|glotto=yess1239
|glottorefname=Yessan-Mayo
}}
{{GeoGroupTemplate}}
Yessan-Mayo (also known as Yesan, Mayo, and natively known as Yamano) is a Papuan language spoken by 2000 people in Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in Maio ({{coord|-4.21379|142.675929|type:city_region:PG|name=Maio}}) and Yessan ({{coord|-4.219025|142.66658|type:city_region:PG|name=Yessan}}) villages of Yessan ward, Ambunti Rural LLG, East Sepik Province.{{cite web |url=https://www.ethnologue.com/country/PG/languages |title=Papua New Guinea languages |work=Ethnologue: Languages of the World |edition=22nd |editor1-last=Eberhard |editor1-first=David M. |editor2-last=Simons |editor2-first=Gary F. |editor3-last=Fennig |editor3-first=Charles D. |date=2019 |location=Dallas |publisher=SIL International}}{{cite web |url=https://data.humdata.org/dataset/village-coordinates-lookup |title=Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup |author=United Nations in Papua New Guinea |work=Humanitarian Data Exchange |version=1.31.9 |date=2018}}
Phonology
The phonology of Yessan-Mayo is described in Foley (2018){{cite book |last=Foley |first=William A. |authorlink=William A. Foley |editor1-last=Palmer |editor1-first=Bill |date=2018 |title=The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide |chapter=The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs |series= The World of Linguistics |volume=4 |location=Berlin |publisher=De Gruyter Mouton |pages=197-432 |isbn=978-3-11-028642-7}} as such:
= Vowels =
= Consonants =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="2" rowspan="2"| ! rowspan="2"| Bilabial ! rowspan="2"| Alveolar ! rowspan="2"| Palatal ! colspan="2"| Velar ! rowspan="2"| Glottal |
| {{small|plain}}
!{{small|labialized}} |
|---|
| rowspan="2" | Plosive
!{{small|plain}} | |{{IPA link|t}} | |{{IPA link|k}} |{{IPA link|kʷ}} | |
| {{small|prenasalized}}
|{{IPA link|ᵐb}} |{{IPA link|ⁿd}} | |{{IPA link|ᵑg}} |{{IPA link|ᵑgʷ}} | |
| colspan="2" |Fricative
|{{IPA link|ɸ}} |{{IPA link|s}} | | | |{{IPA link|h}} |
| colspan="2" |Nasal
|{{IPA link|m}} |{{IPA link|n}} | | | | |
| colspan="2" |Trill
| |{{IPA link|r}} | | | | |
| colspan="2" |Approximant
| |{{IPA link|l}} |{{IPA link|j}} | |{{IPA link|w}} | |
Pronouns
Foreman (1974){{cite book|title=Grammar of Yessan-Mayo|last=Foreman|first=Velma|url=https://archive.org/details/grammarofyessanm0000fore|date=1974|publisher=Summer Institute of Linguistics|location=Santa Ana, California|isbn=0883122049|url-access=registration|via=Internet Archive}} describes two kinds of pronouns in Yessan-Mayo: non-emphatic and emphatic pronouns.
In addition to the non-emphatic pronouns, there is also the reflexive pronoun kwarara (self), as well as the demonstrative pronouns op (this) and otop (that).
= Non-emphatic =
| {{table}}
!colspan="2"| !! singular !! dual !! plural |
| colspan="2"| 1st person
| an || nis || nim |
|---|
| colspan="2"| 2nd person
| ni || kep || kom |
| rowspan="2"| 3rd person
!male | ri ||rowspan="2"| rip ||rowspan="2"| rim |
| female
| ti |
= Emphatic =
| {{table}}
!colspan="2"| !! singular !! dual !! plural |
| colspan="2"| 1st person
| arin || nisis || nirim |
|---|
| colspan="2"| 2nd person
| nirin || kerip || kerim |
| rowspan="2"| 3rd person
!male | atar ||rowspan="2"| atep ||rowspan="2"| atem |
| female
| atat |
External links
- Paradisec has a collection of Don Laycock's ([http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/DL2 DL2]) that includes Yessan-Mayo language materials.
References
{{Reflist}}
{{Sepik languages}}
{{Languages of Papua New Guinea}}
Category:Languages of East Sepik Province
Category:Languages of Sandaun Province
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