| Hatam | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua |
| Region | EasternBird's Head |
Native speakers | (16,000 cited 1993)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | had |
| Glottolog | hata1243 |
| ELP | Hatam |
  Hatam  Hatam  Hatam | |
| Coordinates:1°08′S134°02′E / 1.14°S 134.04°E /-1.14; 134.04 | |
Hatam (also spelledHattam, Atam) is a divergent language spoken on the island ofNew Guinea, specifically in theIndonesian province ofWest Papua.
Apart fromMansim (Borai), formerly listed as a dialect, Hatam is not closely related to any other language, and though Ross (2005) tentatively assigned it to theWest Papuan languages, based on similarities in pronouns,Ethnologue andGlottolog list it as alanguage isolate[1] or small independent family.[2]
Hatam is spoken on the island ofNew Guinea in the following regencies in the Indonesian province ofWest Papua:[3]
The phonology of the Hatam language is listed below. In free form, both consonant and vowel phonemes can range to different sounds.[4]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | |
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
| geminated | pː | tː | kː | |||
| Nasal | voiced | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
| geminated | mː | nː | ||||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Liquid | ɾ | |||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||
| Phoneme | Allophones |
|---|---|
| /p/ | [p,pʰ,pɸ,ɸ] |
| /t/ | [t,tʰ] |
| /c/ | [c,cʰ] |
| /k/ | [k,kʰ,kx] |
| /ɡ/ | [ɡ,k,ɡː] |
| /ɟ/ | [ɟ,ɟː] |
| /d/ | [d,t] |
| /b/ | [b,p,bː] |
| /ɾ/ | [ɾ,l,lː] |
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
| Phoneme | Allophones |
|---|---|
| /i/ | [i,ɪ,ə] |
| /ɛ/ | [ɛ,e] |
| /a/ | [ä,a,ɐ] |
| /ɔ/ | [ɔ,o] |
