Gimi language should not be confused with Gimi language (West New Britain).
| Gimi | |
| States: | Papua New Guinea |
| Region: | Eastern Highlands Province |
| Date: | 2000 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Trans–New Guinea |
| Fam2: | Kainantu–Goroka |
| Fam3: | Goroka |
| Dia1: | Gouno |
| Iso3: | gim |
| Glotto: | gimi1243 |
| Glottorefname: | Gimi (Eastern Highlands) |
Gimi (Labogai) is a Papuan language spoken in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
Gimi has 5 vowels and 12 consonants.[1] It has voiceless and voiced glottal consonants where related languages have pronounced as //k// and pronounced as //ɡ//. The voiceless glottal is simply a glottal stop pronounced as /[ʔ]/. The voiced consonant behaves phonologically like a glottal stop, but does not have full closure. Phonetically it is a creaky-voiced glottal approximant pronounced as /[ʔ̞]/.
| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| High | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Low | pronounced as /link/ |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Tap/Flap | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| pronounced as /link/ | ||||
pronounced as //p// occurs word initially only in loanwords.
pronounced as //b// can surface as either pronounced as /[b]/ or pronounced as /[β]/ in free variation.
pronounced as //z// becomes pronounced as /[s]/ before pronounced as //ɑ//.
pronounced as //t// and pronounced as //ɾ// tend to fluctuate with one another word initially.
The syllable structure is (C)V(G), where G is either pronounced as //ʔ// or pronounced as //ʔ̞//.
The final vowel of a word takes either a level or falling tone. The falling tone is written with an acute accent.
| ak "seed" | ák "armband" | |||
| nimi "bird" | nimí "louse" | |||
Gimi uses the Latin script.
| Letter | Aa | Bb | Dd | Ee | Gg | Hh | Ii | Kk | Mm | Nn | Oo | Pp | Rr | Ss | Tt | Uu | Zz | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPA | pronounced as /ɑ/ | pronounced as /b/ | pronounced as /d/ | pronounced as /e/ | pronounced as /ʔ̞/ | pronounced as /h/ | pronounced as /i/ | pronounced as /ʔ/ | pronounced as /m/ | pronounced as /n/ | pronounced as /o/ | pronounced as /p/ | pronounced as /ɾ/ | pronounced as /s/ | pronounced as /t/ | pronounced as /u/ | pronounced as /z/ |