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Mwotlap language

Mwotlap
Motlav
M̄otlap
Pronunciation[ŋ͡mʷɔtˈlap]
Native toVanuatu
RegionMota Lava island, Banks Islands
Native speakers
2,100 (2012)[1]
Dialects
  • Volow (or a separate language)
Language codes
ISO 639-3mlv
Glottologmotl1237
ELPMotlav
Mwotlap is not endangered according to the classification system of the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Mwotlap (pronounced [ŋ͡mʷɔtˈlap]; formerly known as Motlav) is an Oceanic language spoken by about 2,100 people in Vanuatu. The majority of speakers are found on the island of Motalava in the Banks Islands,[2][3] with smaller communities in the islands of Ra (or Aya) and Vanua Lava,[4] as well as migrant groups in the two main cities of the country, Santo and Port Vila.

Mwotlap was first described in any detail in 2001, by the linguist Alexandre François.

Volow, which used to be spoken on the same island, may be considered a dialect or a separate language.

The language

A speaker of Mwotlap

Name

The language is named after the island.

Geographic distribution

Mwotlap is spoken by about 2,100 people in the Banks Islands, in the North of Vanuatu. Among them, 1,640 live on the island of Mota Lava and its neighbor island, Ra. It is also spoken by a few hundred people living elsewhere in Vanuatu:

Classification

Mwotlap belongs to the Austronesian language family, which includes more than 1,200 languages. Inside its family, Mwotlap is an Oceanic language, descending from the hypothetical common ancestor of all Oceanic languages, Proto-Oceanic. More specifically, it is a Southern Oceanic language.

History

Robert Henry Codrington, an Anglican priest who studied Melanesian societies, first described Mwotlap in 1885. While focusing mainly on Mota, Codrington dedicated twelve pages of his work The Melanesian Languages to the "Motlav" language. Despite being very short, this description can be used to show several changes that occurred in Mwotlap during the 20th century, such as the change of r to y (a process demonstrated already in the loanword Epyaem 'Abraham'). Furthermore, Codrington described Volow, a language closely related to Mwotlap (sometimes even considered a dialect of Mwotlap). Volow, which is extinct today, was spoken in the east of Mota Lava, in the area of Aplow.

Phonology

Because Mwotlap has been passed down by oral tradition, it has no official writing system. This article uses the orthography devised by linguist Alexandre François, based on the Latin alphabet.[a 1]

Mwotlap contrasts 16 consonant phonemes.

Consonants
Labiovelar Bilabial Alveolar Dorsal Glottal
Nasal ŋ͡mʷ ⟨m̄⟩ m ⟨m⟩ n ⟨n⟩ ŋ ⟨n̄⟩
Stop voiceless k͡pʷ ⟨q⟩ t ⟨t⟩ k ⟨k⟩
prenasalized ᵐb ⟨b⟩ ⁿd ⟨d⟩
Fricative β[a] ⟨v⟩ s ⟨s⟩ ɣ ⟨g⟩ h ⟨h⟩
Approximant w ⟨w⟩ l ⟨l⟩ j ⟨y⟩
  1. ^ [p] exists as the allophone of /β/ word-finally, as in the name of the language, /ŋ͡mʷɔtlaβ/ [ŋ͡mʷɔtˈlap].

Mwotlap has 7 phonemic vowels, which are all short monophthongs, with no diphthongs being present in the language.[5]

Vowels
Front Back
Close i ⟨i⟩ u ⟨u⟩
Near-close ɪ ⟨ē⟩ ʊ ⟨ō⟩
Open-mid ɛ ⟨e⟩ ɔ ⟨o⟩
Open a ⟨a⟩

Prosody

Mwotlap is not tonal. Stress always falls on the last syllable of a word. Historically, before syncope of unstressed vowels, it always fell on the penultimate syllable. When syncope took place, the stressed vowel became part of the last syllable.

Morphophonology

Syllables

Mwotlap's syllable structure is (C)V(C), historically resulting from the syncope of unstressed vowels in pre-modern times. This means that no more than two consonants can follow each other within a word and that no word can start or finish with more than one consonant. Recent loanwords, like skul (from English 'school'), are exceptions to this structure.

When a root beginning with two constants forms the beginning of a word, an epenthetic vowel (the same as the next vowel) is inserted between the two consonants.[6] For example, the root tron̄ 'drunk' can form the following:

  • me-tron̄ [mɛt.rɔŋ] '[he] got drunk': the consonants ⟨t⟩ and ⟨r⟩ belong to two different syllables;
  • toron̄ [tɔ.rɔŋ] '[they are] getting drunk': the insertion of a vowel between ⟨t⟩ and ⟨r⟩ is necessary to prevent the syllable from starting with two consecutive consonants.

Vowel copying

Vowel copying is the tendency of certain prefixes to copy the first vowel of the following word.[6] Notable vowel copying prefixes include the article na-, the locative le-, and te-, a prefix used to form adjectives describing origin. These prefixes form nō-vōy 'volcano', ni-hiy 'bone', and to-M̄otlap 'from Mota Lava', but also na-pnō 'island' and na-nye-k 'my blood'. Words stems beginning with two consonants do not permit vowel copying. Thus the stems VŌY[7] and HIY[8] allow their vowel to be copied, while the stems VNŌ[9] and DYE[10] do not.

Syntax

Mwotlap is an SVO language: the word order of a sentence is fixed and is always subject-verb-complement-adverbial.

The system of personal pronouns contrasts clusivity, and distinguishes four numbers (singular, dual, trial, plural).[11] Human nouns also have four numbers; as for non-human nouns, they do not inflect for number and are expressed as singulars.[12]

Spatial reference in Mwotlap is based on a system of geocentric (absolute) directionals, which is in part typical of Oceanic languages, and in part innovative.[13]

References

  1. ^ François (2012):88).
  2. ^ "List of Banks islands languages".
  3. ^ "map of the 17 north Vanuatu languages".
  4. ^ François (2012):97).
  5. ^ François (2005a): 445); François (2005b): 116).
  6. ^ a b François (2000).
  7. ^ See entry vōy in the Online Mwotlap dictionary.
  8. ^ See entry hiy in the Online Mwotlap dictionary.
  9. ^ See entry v[ō]nō in the Online Mwotlap dictionary.
  10. ^ See entry d[e]ye~ in the Online Mwotlap dictionary.
  11. ^ François (2016).
  12. ^ François (2005:) 122-125).
  13. ^ François (2003), François (2015:) 175-176).
  1. ^ pp. 77–78

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