| Amele | |
| Nativename: | Sona |
| States: | Papua New Guinea |
| Region: | Madang Province |
| Speakers: | 5,300 |
| Date: | 1987 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Trans–New Guinea |
| Fam2: | Madang |
| Fam3: | Croisilles linkage |
| Fam4: | Mabuso? |
| Fam5: | Gum |
| Iso3: | aey |
| Glotto: | amel1241 |
| Glottorefname: | Amele |
Amele (Amele: Sona) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Dialects are Huar, Jagahala and Haija.
Amele is notable for having 32 possessive classes,[1] over 69,000 finite forms and 860 infinitive forms of the verb.[2]
Amele has only 5 vowels: /i, ɛ, æ, u, ɔ/.[3]
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | t | k | ʔ | |||
| voiced | b | d | g | ||||
| Fricative | f | s | ʝ | h | |||
| Approximant | l | ||||||
Amele has seven tense-aspect categories, including four past tenses:[4]