Жаңа Гвинеядағы Рай Кост тілі: Тауя диалектісі

Rai Coast language of Papua New Guinea

Tauya (also Inafosa) not to be mistaken with Tauya the Zambian indie artist, is a Rai Coast language spoken in the Ramu River valley, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea by approximately 350 people. The Linguistics Department at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, Canada, has Tauya language resources.

Tauya is closely genetically related to the Biyom Language and is grouped with Tauya in the Rai Coast subgroup. The two languages relate although Biyom is spoken higher up the mountains as they border close to each other and have been found to have some similarities in diction such as the word kaŋgora meaning initiate which was directly borrowed from the Biyom Language.

Tauya syllable structure consists of an onset consonant of (C)V(V). In plural forms of personal pronouns consonants are the final in morphemes, these ones all have a consonant ending of n as seen in sen. The use of consonant in the ending word is followed by a vowel initial in transitive verbs, impersonal verbs and inalienable nouns. Using them to mark objects, experiencers, and possessors inflecting with ~pi suffix.

Consist of personal pronouns, deictic pronouns and full nouns as classes of nouns. These are determined as classes based on suffixing as personal pronouns within Tauya language with ~na, emphatic, ~nasi, restrictive, and ~ʔunama, too. Deictic pronouns do not use these but full nouns are marked as an inflected pronoun. Tauya uses 5 dependent locative roots afa~, above, pise~, uphill, ofe~, below, tofe~, downhill, and ma~ are combined with deictic pronouns; but do not work with personal pronouns and full nouns.