Tigak (or Omo) is an Austronesian language spoken by about 6,000 people (in 1991) in the Kavieng District of New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea.
The Tigak language area includes the provincial capital, Kavieng.
Phonology Phoneme inventory of the Tigak language: + Consonant sounds Labial Alveolar VelarNasalPlosivevoicelessvoicedRhoticFricativevoicelesslateral
can also be realized as allophonically. Both are back-released as .
+ Vowel soundsFrontCentralBackHighMidLow
PhonemeAllophones, , , ,
Two vowels in word-initial form can also be released as consonantal allophones .
External links Paradisec includes a number of collections with Tigak language materials.
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