Goliath language

Una
Goliath
Region West Papua
Native speakers
5,600 (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 mtg
Glottolog unaa1239[2]

Una, better known as Goliath, is a Papuan language of West Papua.

Dialects are (Western) Una, Bomela, Tanime, Eastern Sela, Kinome. Eastern Una is closer to Ketengban.

It is one of the 3 languages to lack both /p/ and /g/.[3]

References

  1. Una at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Una". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. http://wals.info/valuesets/5A-una


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