Sentani language
Papuan language spoken in Indonesia
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Sentani or Buyaka is a Papuan language of Papua. It is spoken in about 30 scattered villages around Lake Sentani. Dialects are East, West, and Central (Ethnologue).
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Demta–Sentani
- Sentani proper
- Sentani
- Sentani proper
| Sentani | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua, Indonesia |
| Region | Lake Sentani, Papua |
Native speakers | (30,000 cited 1996)[1] |
Northwest Papuan?
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | set |
| Glottolog | nucl1632 |
Phonology
Consonants
Consonants marked with a tilde ⟨~⟩ are free variants. Because of the distance between [h] and [s] in the chart, [s] is marked in parentheses, being the less common (but still free) variant.
Vowels
Central Sentani
Central Sentani phonology from Foley (2018):[2]
Grammar
Pronouns
There are four series of pronouns. The first involves stressed pronoun forms, and "is... composed with the emphatic particle jɛ". The second involves subject, postposition, and possessive usages – their vowels are allowed to be elided. The third are stressed or substantive possessives, and sometimes reflexives. The fourth involves "proclitic possessive[s]", which may have their vowels elided; they are not full affixes.[3]
| I | II | III | IV | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1sg | dəjɛ | da | dɛj | də |
| 1pl ex | mejɛ | me | mɛj | |
| 1pl in | ejɛ | (e) | ɛj | |
| 2sg | wəjɛ | wa | wɛj | wə |
| 2pl | məjɛ | ma | maj | mə |
| 3sg | nəjɛ | na | nɛj | nə |
| 3pl | nəjɛ | na | nɛj | nə |