====== Ontena ======

Timothy Usher, Santa Fe Institute

===== Situation =====
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===== Sources =====
Frantz (1994) sketch phonology of Ontena village, recapitulated in an undated and unattributed manuscript from Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ukarumpa

===== Phonology =====
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Frantz (1994 ibid.) gives 8 or 9 consonants and 6 vowels for Ontena as follows:

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|  m  |  n  |     |     |       |
|  ɸ  |  s  |     |  x  |  [ʔ]  |
|  β  |  ɾ  |  j  |     |       |


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|  i   |     |  u   |
|  e:  |  ɐ  |  o:  |
|      |  a  |      |

Low front vowel /a/ is probably really long /a:/, as it is in Akuna, and <aa> is structurally and historically equivalent to /ɑ:/ in other West Kainantu languages.\\
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Frantz' fricatives /ɸ s x/ are structurally and historically equivalent to Akuna's /p t k/, and are realized as [p t k] when preceded by syllable final archiphoneme glottal stop /ʔ/ in a cluster; likewise Akuna's stops have fricated allophones (Frantz and Frantz 1966, 1973: 406-413, Frantz 1995 ibid.) These reflect North Kainantu /*p *s *t/, but their reinterpretation was probably already etablished in and synchronic to Proto-Gadsup.\\
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===== Prounouns =====
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===== Verbal morphology =====
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