Taulil language

Taulil is a Papuan language spoken in East New Britain Province on the island of New Britain, Papua New Guinea.

It is spoken in Kadaulung village of (4.452603°S 152.118398°E) of Inland Baining Rural LLG, and in Taulil 1 (4.413301°S 152.092147°E) and Taulil 2 (4.419937°S 152.087372°E) villages of Vunadidir/Toma Rural LLG.^[1][2]

Butam (now extinct) is related. Like the Butam, the Taulil people trace their ancestry to New Ireland.^[3]

Phonology

Taulil has the following consonants:^[3]

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"

! !! Bilabial !! Alveolar!! Palatal!! Velar |- ! Plosive (voiceless) | p || t || || k |- ! Plosive (voiced) | b || d || || ɡ |- ! Nasal | m || n || || ŋ |- ! Tap/Flap | || ɾ || || |- ! Fricative | β || || || |- ! Approximant | || || j || |- ! Lateral approximant | || l || || |}

References

1. ^ e25
2. ^ United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
3. ^ Stebbins, Tonya; Evans, Bethwyn; Terrill, Angela (2018). "The Papuan languages of Island Melanesia". The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. Vol. 4. The World of Linguistics. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 775–894. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.

• Meng, Chenxi (2018). A grammar of Tulil (Ph.D.). La Trobe University. hdl:1959.9/565684