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The Anêm language is a language isolate spoken in five main villages along the northwestern coast of New Britain island, Papua
New Guinea: Malasoŋo (where it is spoken alongside Bariai), Karaiai, Mosiliki, Pudêlîŋ, Atiatu (where it is spoken alongside
Lusi) and Bolo (where it is spoken alongside a version of Aria). It is also spoken by small numbers of people, mostly of Anêm
descent, scattered among the surrounding villages. There are two main dialects. Akiblîk, the dialect of Bolo was near functional
extinction in 1982, the youngest speaker being about 35 years of age then. The main dialect is spoken in the other villages
named above. There are about 550 speakers. Anêm has been restructured under the influence of Lusi, the local inter-community
language. Anêm is an accusative language with unmarked subject–verb–object word order in plain statements. Yes/no questions
are indicated with an intonation contour rather than alterations in word order. Negation (not, not yet, don't) and completive
aspect (already) are indicated by modality markers which occur in clause-final position. Tense is not indicated directly.
There are three distinctions of mood (realis, irrealis and hortative). Realis refers to something that has happened or is
happening; irrealis refers to future tense and hypotheticals; and hortative (only in third persons) is used in commands. Transitive
clauses showing subject–verb–object order: Negative markers are clause final: Hortative mood: Anêm nouns are distinguished
syntactically for gender, masculine or feminine. Masculine nouns are followed by demonstratives or relative pronouns that
begin with /l/ while feminine nouns are followed by demonstratives or relative pronouns that begin with /s/. In addition,
both subject prefixes and some object suffixes agree in gender with the noun they refer to: Masculine and feminine gender
forms of demonstratives: Gender agreement by subject prefix and object suffix: It may be related to the Ata and Yélî Dnye
isolates in a tentative Yele-West New Britain family. |
Names (more)[br] Anemeg[en] Anêm language [hr] Anem jezik [ru] Анем [es] Idioma anêm |
Language type : Living
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : anzLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/anzhttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:anz More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: anzFreebase ISO 639-3 : anz GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |