Fore language explained

Fore
States:	Papua New Guinea
Region:	Goroka District, Eastern Highlands Province
Ethnicity:	Fore
Date:	2000
Ref:	e25
Familycolor:	Papuan
Fam1:	Trans–New Guinea
Fam2:	Kainantu–Goroka
Fam3:	Goroka
Dia1:	Pamusa
Iso3:	for
Glotto:	fore1270
Glottorefname:	Fore

Fore or Foré ^[1] is a Kainantu-Goroka language spoken in the Goroka District of Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

The consonants of Fore are as follows:^[2]

		Bilabial	Dental/Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Stops	Plain	p	t̪		k	ʔ
	Prenasalized	mp	n̪t̪~nt		ŋk
Nasals		m	n̪~n
Fricative			s̪~s
Approximants		w		j

All the dental consonants can vary to alveolar, except /t̪/ which is always dental. /p/, /t̪/, and /k/ are pronounced as /b/, /ɾ/, and /g/ between vowels. Velar consonants are labialized after rounded vowels. /j/ is often pronounced as a fricative /ʝ/.

Fore has six vowels:

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	eː	ʌ	oː
Open		aː

It also has four diphthongs: ae, ao, ai, and au.

Fore has a pitch accent system. Each syllable is either accented or unaccented. Multiple accented syllables can occur in the same word, but they cannot be adjacent to each other.

External links

• Paradisec includes collections with Fore language materials

Notes and References

1. Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh
2. Graham Scott. 1977. The Fore Language of Papua New Guinea. (Doctoral dissertation, Australian National University; xvi+244pp.)