Fas languages

Short description: Language family

Fas

Baibai–Momu
Geographic
distribution| Papua New Guinea
Linguistic classification| Kwomtari–Fas?
Northwest Papuan?

* Fas

Subdivisions|

* Fas (Momu)
* Baibai

Glottolog| baib1250[1]

The neighboring Fas and Kwomtari language families

The Fas languages are a small language family of Papua New Guinea.

## Contents

* 1 Classification
* 2 Phonological features
* 3 Proto-language
* 4 References
* 5 External links

## Classification

Despite the fact that the family consists of just two closely related languages, Baibai and Fas (40% cognate), there has been considerable confusion over its membership, apparently due to a misalignment in the publication (Loving & Bass 1964) of the data used for the initial classification. (See Baron 1983.) The initial name of the family was Fas, but Laycock (1975) changed it to Baibai when he mistakenly moved the Fas language to the Kwomtari family, an error perpetuated in much of the literature. Baibai (Baibai and Biaka) is therefore not a synonym for the Fas family (Baibai and Fas). See Kwomtari–Fas languages for details.

A few regular sound correspondences are apparent (Baron 1983:21 ff):

correspondence | Fas example | Baibai example | Gloss

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|
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*mb → ʙ, mb  | mɛʙəkɛ | mɛmbəkɛ | "star"
*nd → k, ɾ  | kəmas | ɾəmas | "bow"
k–f metathesis*  | kafəki | ɾaɾəfi | "tobacco"
*k → zero, *k  | kɛj | ɾɛɡi | "hand" (< *ɾɛki)

The odd change from *nd to /k/ (via *hr) has also occurred in the Bewani languages and some of the Vanimo languages.

*/k/–/f/ metathesis still operates in Fas. /s/–/f/ and /s/–/m/ metathesis has been reconstructed.

*/k/ is lost in some environments. Baibai [ɾɛɡi] may be phonemically /ɾɛki/.

Baron sees no evidence that the similarities between the Fas and Kwomtari families are any greater than with neighboring unrelated families, and thus doubts the validity of the putative Kwomtari–Fas family.

## Phonological features

Two papers were published by Wietze Baron (1979, 1983a) on the phonology of Fas. Baron argued that the phonological processes of Fas contradict claims by proponents of Natural Generative Phonology that Paul Kiparsky's Opacity Principle allowed no exceptions. See Optimality theory for later developments in phonological theory. Further papers are posted on his website. Recently an honours thesis by Fiona Blake (University of Sydney) has also been posted on the web; she refers to Fas as Momu.

The Fas language apparently has a seven-vowel system. It also has a bilabial trill [ʙ] (Baron 1979:95), even though Laycock (1975:854) had expressed his doubts about earlier reports of this feature by Capell (1962).

## Proto-language

Some lexical reconstructions of Proto-Baibai-Momu (i.e., Proto-Fas) by Usher (2020) are:[2]

gloss | Proto-Baibai-Momu

|

older brother | *apɛ
name | *ambu
smoke | *mVsV
star | *mɛmbVkɛ
mother (addressing) | *mɛ
flying fox | *mɛnɛ
net bag | *man
shoulder | *mandVɸV
woman | *mɔŋgɔ
water/river | *ɸi
salt | *ɸVn[ɛ]
breast/milk | *ɸVki
house | *ɸVndV
axe | *tɔmakɔ
liver | *tVtV
hand | *ndɛŋgi
know | *ndam...
tobacco | *ndandVɸi
fire | *ndɔa
bow | *ndVmas
many | *ndɔambɔ
fat/grease | *sVmbu
black | *sVŋgarɔ
bird-of-paradise sp. | *sujakɛ
eye | *kVri
axe | *ŋgambɛ
areca nut | *ŋgVmVsV
earth/ground | *ŋgVndV
egg | *handɔ
2 sg. | *[h]aŋgi
skin | *hVraɔ
moon | *wVsi
3 sg. | *wɔ
stone | *wɔneŋgrɛ

## References

1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Baibai–Fas". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/baib1250.
2. ↑ Usher, Timothy. 2020.Baibai-Momu. New Guinea World.

* Baron, Wietze (1979). "Light from the dark ages of Chomsky and Halle's 'Abstract phonology'". Kivung 12: 89–96. OCLC 9188672.
* Baron, Wietze (1983a). "Cases of counter-feeding in Fas". Language and Linguistics in Melanesia 14: 138–149. OCLC 9188672.
* Baron, Wietze (1983b). Kwomtari survey. , posted at: [1]
* Blake, Fiona. 2007. 'Spatial reference in Momu'. Posted at [2]
* Laycock, Donald C. (1975). "Sko, Kwomtari, and Left May (Arai) phyla". in Stephen A. Wurm. Papuan languages and the New Guinea linguistic scene: New Guinea area languages and language study 1. Canberra: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. pp. 849–858. OCLC 37096514.
* Loving, Richard; Jack Bass (1964). Languages of the Amanab sub-district. Port Moresby: Department of Information and Extension Services. OCLC 17101737.

## External links

* Baibai-Momu. New Guinea World.

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| Isolates|

* Basque
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New Guinea
and the Pacific|

* Arai–Samaia
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| Isolates|

* Abinomn
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| Isolates|

* Giimbiyu
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America|

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| Isolates|

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| Isolates|

* Cuitlatec
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South
America|

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| Isolates
(extant in 2000)|

* Aikanã?
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* Chiquitano
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* Fulniô
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| Isolates|

* See list of sign languages

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See also|

* Language isolates
* Unclassified languages
* Creoles
* Pidgins
* Mixed languages
* Artificial languages

* Families in italics have no living members.
* Families with more than 30 languages are in bold.

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