Wom language (Papua New Guinea) explained

Wom
Region:	East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea (12 villages)
Date:	2003
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Papuan
Fam1:	Torricelli
Script:	Latin
Iso3:	wmo
Glotto:	womp1235
Glottorefname:	Wom (Papua New Guinea)

Wom or Wam is a Papuan language of the Torricelli language family spoken by 4,264 people in East Sepik province, Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

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Labial	Alveolar	Dorsal
Plosive	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Prenasalized	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Fricative		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Nasal	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Approximant		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/

• The prenasalised plosives /ᵐb ⁿd ᵑg ᵑgʷ/ are plain [b d g gʷ] word-initially.
• /s/ can be realized as [ts] word-initially.
• /h/ can be heard as [x] intervocalically.

Vowels!!Front!Central!Back

High	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Mid	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Low		pronounced as /link/

Additionally, the following diphthongs can be found: /ei/, /ai/, /oi/, /au/, /ou/.

Stress is phonemic.

External links

• Paradisec has two collections with materials from Wom, one from Arthur Capell (AC1) and the other from Don Laycock (DL2)