Dusner language

Dusner
Dusner
Native to	West Papua, Indonesia
Region	Cenderawasih Bay
Native speakers	3 (2011)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian South Halmahera–West New Guinea Cenderawasih Bay Biakic Dusner–Tandia Dusner; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dsn
Glottolog	dusn1237
ELP	Dusner
	Dusner Dusner Dusner
	Coordinates: 2°44′S 134°23′E / 2.74°S 134.39°E

Dusner is a language spoken in the village of Dusner in the province of West Papua, Indonesia. Dusner is highly endangered, and has been reported to have just three remaining speakers.^[2]^[1]^[3]

Sociolinguistic situation

The language is highly endangered with only three speakers reported to be remaining.^[2]^[1]^[3] In 2011, researchers from Oxford University's Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics began a project to document the vocabulary and grammar of the language, in collaboration with UNIPA (State University of Papua) and UNCEN (Cenderawasih University, Papua).^[4]^[5] The project outputs were a vocabulary, a published grammar,^[2] and a website documenting the language.

Phonology

The phoneme inventory of Dusner consists of five vowels and 19 consonants (five of which are only attested in loanwords from Indonesian/Papuan Malay).^[2]

Vowels^[2]
	front	back
high	i	u
mid	e	o
low		a

Consonants^[2]
		labial	alveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
nasal		m	n	(ɲ)	ŋ
plosive/ affricate	voiceless	p	t	(t͡ʃ)	k
plosive/ affricate	voiced	b	d	(d͡ʒ)	g
fricative		β	s			(h)
liquid			r (l)
glide		w		j

(Phonemes in parentheses in the table are only attested in loanwords from Papuan Malay)

There is no tone in the language. The phonology of the language has a high number of complex syllable onsets, some of them contravening the Sonority Sequencing Principle.

Morphology

References

^ ^a ^b ^c Malvern, Jack (21 April 2011). "Last few speakers of Indonesian language Dusner nearly wiped out by flood, volcano". The Australian. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Dalrymple, Mary; Mofu, Suriel (2012). Dusner. LINCOM Europa. ISBN 9783862882786.
^ ^a ^b "April 21, 2011: articles on the Dusner language, spoken by 3 last speakers". SOROSORO: So the languages of the world may live on!. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
^ Alleyne, Richard (2011-04-21). "Oxford University mission to save a language spoken by three people". Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2011-04-24. Retrieved 2013-02-08.
^ "Multimodal language documentation for Dusner, an endangered language of Papua". University of Oxford, Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics. Retrieved 2013-02-08.

External links

"Multimodal language documentation for Dusner, an endangered language of Papua". University of Oxford, Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics. Retrieved 2013-02-08.

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[pop-1] Malvern, Jack (21 April 2011). "Last few speakers of Indonesian language Dusner nearly wiped out by flood, volcano". The Australian. Retrieved 24 April 2011.

[DusnerBook-2] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Dalrymple, Mary; Mofu, Suriel (2012). Dusner. LINCOM Europa. ISBN 9783862882786.

[sorosoro.org-3] "April 21, 2011: articles on the Dusner language, spoken by 3 last speakers". SOROSORO: So the languages of the world may live on!. Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[4] Alleyne, Richard (2011-04-21). "Oxford University mission to save a language spoken by three people". Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2011-04-24. Retrieved 2013-02-08.

[5] "Multimodal language documentation for Dusner, an endangered language of Papua". University of Oxford, Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics. Retrieved 2013-02-08.

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