Yonggom language

Not to be confused with Yonggom Wambon language.

Yonggom
Region	Western Province, Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	(6,000 cited 1999)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Central & South New Guinea ? Ok Lowland Ok Yonggom
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yon
Glottolog	yong1280
ELP	Yonggom

Yonggom is one of the Ok languages of West Papua and Papua New Guinea. It is very close to North Muyu, which is also called 'Yonggom'.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k kʷ
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative			s
Tap			ɾ
Approximant		w	(l)	j

• /b, d/ can become fricatives [β, ð] intervocalically in fast speech.
• /k/ can be heard as a fricative [ɣ] in fast speech.
• /ɾ/ becomes [l] in word-initial position.
• /j/ is heard as an affricate [dʒ] when following a plosive.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i iː		u uː
Mid	ɛ ɛː		o oː
Open		a aː

• /i/ becomes [ɪ] when before /s/ or a word-final /n/.
• /ɛ/ becomes more close as [e] when before a sonorant back consonant.

External links

• Paradisec has an open access collection that includes Yonggom language materials