| Iha | |
|---|---|
| Matta, Kapaur | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | West Papua (Bomberai Peninsula) |
Native speakers | (5,500 cited 1987)1 |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ihp |
| Glottolog | ihaa1241 |
| Pidgin Iha | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | West Papua (Bomberai Peninsula) |
Native speakers | None |
Iha-based pidgin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ihb |
| Glottolog | ihab1241 |
| ELP | Iha Based Pidgin |
Iha (Matta, Kapaur) is a Papuan language spoken by the Mbaham-Matta people (primarily Matta) of the Bomberai Peninsula in West Papua Province, Indonesia. It is the basis of a pidgin used as the local trade language.2
Phonology
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Labio- dorsal |
Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t̪ | (t͡ʃ) | q͡p | q | ||
| voiced | (b) | d̪ | (d͡ʒ) | ɢ | ||||
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | ᵑᵐɡ͡b | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | (f) | s | h | ||||
| voiced | β | |||||||
| Rhotic | ɾ | |||||||
| Lateral | l | |||||||
| Semivowel | j | w | ||||||
- Marginal phonemes are in parentheses.3
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
- /i a/ can also have allophones [ɪ ə].4
Pronouns
Flassy and Animung (1992) list the following pronouns for Iha.4
| singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | exclusive | on | mbi |
| inclusive | in | ||
| 2nd person | ko | ki | |
| 3rd person | mi | wat/mi | |
References
References
- Iha at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- Iha-Based Pidgin at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- Al-Gariri, Husam Saeed Salem Al-Gariri (2022). Prenasalized Stops in Iha: an acoustic analysis of allophonic variation (PDF). University of Amsterdam.
- Flassy, Don A. L.; Animung, Lisidius (1992). Struktur Bahasa Iha. Jakarta: Pusat Bahasa dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan Nasional. ISBN 9794591955.