Binandere is a Papuan language spoken in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea.

Binandere
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionOro Province
Native speakers
7,000 (2007)[1]
Dialects
  • Binandere
  • Tainya Dawari (Ambasi)
  • Yewa Buie
Language codes
ISO 639-3bhg
Glottologbina1277

Phonology

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Binandere has 11 consonants: voiced and voiceless bilabials, alveolars, and velars; voiced labial and alveolar nasals; the flap /ɾ/; the voiced bilabial fricative /β/ and the palatal approximant /j/.[2]

Consonants of Binandere[2]
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar
Plosive p b t d k ɡ
Nasal m n
Fricative β
Approximant j
Tap/flap ɾ

Binandere also has the 5 common vowels /ɑ e i o u/ and their five nasal counterparts.[2]

Vowels of Binandere[2]
Front Central Back
Close i ĩ u ũ
Mid e o õ
Open ɑ ɑ̃

These vowels can be combined to form up to 11 possible diphthongs:

  • Oral: /iu/ /ei/ /eo/ /eu/ /ɑi/ /ɑe/ /ɑo/ /ɑu/ /oi/ /oe/ /ou/
  • Nasal: /ẽĩ/ /ɑ̃ĩ/ /ɑ̃õ/ /õũ/

Evolution

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Below are some reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea proposed by Pawley (2012):[3]

proto-Trans-New Guinea Binandere
*m(i,u)ndu ‘nose’ mendo
*m(o,u)k ‘milk, sap, breast’ mu ‘sap’
*mundun ‘internal organs’ mundu ‘kidney, testicles’
*(ŋg,k)iti-maŋgV ‘eye’ (gisi)-moka ‘eye’
*mV ‘taro’ (Suena ma ‘taro’)
*mV- ‘give’ (Korafe mut- ‘give’)
*(m,mb)elak ‘light, lightning’ biriga ‘lightning’
*am(a,i) ‘mother’ ai (*m lost before i), (Suena mia)
*amu ‘breast’ ami
*k(i,u)tuma ‘night, morning’ tumba ‘darkness’
*na ‘1SG na
*na- ‘eat’ na- ‘eat, drink’
*n[e]i ‘bird’ ni
*nVŋg- ‘know, hear, see’ (Korafe niŋg- ‘hear, understand’)
pMadang-Binandere *nu[k] ‘3SG free pronoun’ nu
*ka(m,mb)(a,u)na ‘stone’ ganuma (Korafe ghamana ‘stone’)
*mundun ‘internal organs’ mundu ‘kidney, testicles’, (Korafe munju ‘egg’)
*mbalaŋ ‘flame’ (?) beriberi ‘be alight’
*mbalaŋ ‘flame’ beri-beri ‘be alight’
*mbulikV ‘turn (oneself)’ (Guhu-Samane burisi eetaqu ‘turn over, turn s.th. around’)
*mbeŋga-masi ‘orphan’, ‘widow and child’ (Suena boga masa ‘destitute widow and child’)
*pu + verb ‘to blow’ Binandere put- ‘blow’
*ambi ‘man’ embo (Guhu-Samane abi ‘man’)
*kV(mb,p)(i,u)t(i,u) ‘head’ kopuru
*[ka]tumba(C) ‘short’ tupo
*kambu(s,t)(a,u) ‘smoke’ (?) imbosi
*apa ‘father’ afa (Korafe afa)
*ndaŋgi/ndiŋga ‘tie’ (Suena di ‘tie’)
*m(i,u)ndu ‘nose’ mendo
*mundun ‘internal organs’ mundu ‘kidney, testicles’, etc.’)
*ka(nd,t)(e,i)kV ‘ear’ (Yega kari ‘ear’)
*inda ‘tree’ izi (cf. Notu ri)
*[ka]tumba(C) ‘short’ tupo
*k(i,u)tuma ‘night, morning’ Binandere tumba ‘darkness’, ‘night’)
*kV(mb,p)(i,u)t(i,u) ‘head’ kopuru
*(ŋg,k)iti-maŋgV ‘eye’ gisi moka
*at(i,u) ‘netbag’ asi (Suena ati ‘netbag’)
*si[si] ‘urine’ pBinandere *susu (Korafe soso)
*titi ‘tooth’ ji
*asi ‘string, rope’ asi ‘vine, string, rope’)
*kasipa ‘to spit’ kosiwa ‘spittle’
*mbeŋga-masi ‘orphan’ (Suena boga masa ‘destitute’) ‘widow and child’
*kanjipa ‘sun’ (?) kariga ‘moon’
*(ŋg,k)iti-maŋgV ‘eye’ gisi-(moka)
*(ŋg,k)iti-maŋgV ‘eye’ (gisi)-moka (Korafe móko ‘core, centre’)
*nVŋg- ‘know, hear, see’ (pBinandere *niŋg- ‘hear’, Korafe niŋg- ‘hear, understand’)
*mbeŋga-masi ‘orphan’ (Suena boga-masa ‘destitute’) ‘widow and child’
*kV(mb,p)(i,u)t(i,u) ‘head’ kopuru
*ka(nd,t)(e,i)kV ‘ear’ (Yega kari)
*kasipa ‘to spit’ kosiwa ‘spittle’, kosiwa ari ‘to spit’
*ka(m,mb)(a,u)na ‘stone’ ganuma (metath.) (Korafe ɣamana)
*ka(m,mb)(a,u)na ‘stone’ ganuma (metath.) (Korafe ɣamana ‘stone’)
*k(o,u)ndVC ‘bone’ (?) undoru ‘bones’
*kumV- ‘die’ (?) abu-bugari ‘dead people’, (pBin *ambu- ‘wither, be sick, dying’)
*kambu(s,t)(a,u) ‘smoke’ (?) imbosi
*ka(nd,t)(e,i)kV ‘ear’ (Yega kari)
*la(ŋg,k)a ‘ashes’ (aßa)-raka ‘fire’
*sikal/*sakil ‘hand, claw’ (?) siŋgu ‘finger’, finger’)
*(m,mb)elak ‘light, lightning’ biriga ‘lightning’
*(m,mb)elak ‘light, lightning’ birigi

References

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  1. ^ Binandere at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ a b c d Wilson, Jonathan P. (2002). "Binandere Verbal Structures". SIL. Retrieved 31 May 2022.
  3. ^ Pawley, Andrew (2012). Hammarström, Harald; van den Heuvel, Wilco (eds.). "How reconstructable is proto Trans New Guinea? Problems, progress, prospects". History, Contact and Classification of Papuan Languages (Language & Linguistics in Melanesia Special Issue 2012: Part I). Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea: 88–164. hdl:1885/38602. ISSN 0023-1959.
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