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Rotokas language : ウィキペディア英語版 | Rotokas language
Rotokas is an East Papuan language spoken by some 4,000 people in Bougainville, an island to the east of New Guinea, part of Papua New Guinea. According to Allen and Hurd (1963), there are three identified dialects: Central Rotokas ("Rotokas Proper"), Aita Rotokas, and Pipipaia; with a further dialect spoken in Atsilima (Atsinima) village with an unclear status〔Allen and Hurd, 1963. Cited in Robinson 2006: 206. Robinson says "it appears to be heavily influenced by contact with Keriaka".〕 Central Rotokas is most notable for its extremely small phonemic inventory and for having perhaps the smallest modern alphabet. ==Phonology== The Central dialect of Rotokas possesses one of the world's smallest phoneme inventories. (Only the Pirahã language has been claimed to have fewer.) The alphabet consists of twelve letters, representing eleven phonemes. Rotokas has a vowel-length distinction (that is, all vowels have a short and long counterpart) but otherwise lacks distinctive suprasegmental features such as contrastive tone or stress.
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