Gimi language
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| Gimi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Eastern Highlands Province |
|
Native speakers
|
unknown (22,500 cited 1981)[1] |
| Dialects |
Gouno
|
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | gim |
| Glottolog | gimi1243[2] |
Gimi (Labogai) is a Papuan language spoken in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
Gimi has voiceless and voiced glottal consonants where related languages have /k/ and /ɡ/. The voiceless glottal is simply a glottal stop [ʔ]. The voiced consonant behaves phonologically like a glottal stop, but does not have full closure. Phonetically it is a creaky-voiced glottal approximant [ʔ̞].[3]
References
- ↑ Gimi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
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