| Dusner | |
|---|---|
| Native to | West Papua,Indonesia |
| Region | Cenderawasih Bay |
Native speakers | 3 (2011)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dsn |
| Glottolog | dusn1237 |
| ELP | Dusner |
  Dusner  Dusner  Dusner | |
| Coordinates:2°44′S134°23′E / 2.74°S 134.39°E /-2.74; 134.39 | |
Dusner is a language spoken in the village ofDusner in the province ofWest Papua,Indonesia. Dusner is highlyendangered, and has been reported to have just three remaining speakers.[2][1][3]
The language is highly endangered with only three speakers reported to be remaining.[2][1][3] In 2011, researchers fromOxford University's Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics began a project to document the vocabulary and grammar of the language, in collaboration with UNIPA (State University of Papua) and UNCEN (Cenderawasih University, Papua).[4][5] The project outputs were a vocabulary, a published grammar,[2] and a website documenting the language.
The phoneme inventory of Dusner consists of five vowels and 19 consonants (five of which are only attested in loanwords from Indonesian/Papuan Malay).[2]
| front | back | |
|---|---|---|
| high | i | u |
| mid | e | o |
| low | a |
| labial | alveolar | palatal | velar | glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nasal | m | n | (ɲ) | ŋ | ||
| plosive/ affricate | voiceless | p | t | (t͡ʃ) | k | |
| voiced | b | d | (d͡ʒ) | g | ||
| fricative | β | s | (h) | |||
| liquid | r (l) | |||||
| glide | w | j | ||||
(Phonemes in parentheses in the table are only attested in loanwords from Papuan Malay)
There is no tone in the language. The phonology of the language has a high number of complex syllable onsets, some of them contravening theSonority Sequencing Principle.
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