| Amanab | |
| Region: | Amanab District, Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea |
| Coordinates: | -3.5834°N 141.2149°W) |
| Date: | 2003 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Border |
| Fam2: | Bewani Range |
| Fam3: | Bapi River |
| Script: | Latin |
| Iso3: | amn |
| Glotto: | aman1265 |
| Glottorefname: | Amanab |
| Notice: | IPA |
Amanab is a Papuan language spoken by 4,400 people in Amanab District (-3.5834°N 141.2149°W), Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.
Dialects are Eastern, Northern, and Western.[1]
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| Plosive | prenasalized | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| voiceless | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Approximant/Flap | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/~pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
The Amanab pronouns are:[2]
| singular | dual | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | exclusive | ka | ka-ningri | ka-ger | |
| inclusive | bi-ningri | bi-ger | |||
| 2nd person | ne | ne-ningri | ne-nger | ||
| 3rd person | ehe | ehe-ningri | ehe-nger | ||
In Amanab, subordinate clauses are linked using the topic marker suffix -ba.[2]