110-item wordlists for the Sko family.
Languages included: Skou
Skou
The sources of the Skou list are the unpublished Mark Donohue’s drafts: the dictionary
(Donohue 2002) and the grammar (Donohue 2004). The following system of transliteration is
used:
Donohue’s notation
MosLex
a
a
i
i
u
u
e
e
o
o
ue
ʉ
oe
ö
p
p
b
b
f
f
t
t
k
k
ȶ
j
h
h
m
m
n
n
r
r
l
l
w
w
y
y
Vng
V
(low)
V
V
(high)
V
V (middle, not marked)
V
Notes: {e} and {o} are opened [ɛ] and [ɔ] according to Donohue’s description. There are three
tones: high, low and fall in Donohue’s terminology and logat tarik (or logat tinggi) ‘pulled tone’
(or high tone), logat tengah ‘middle tone’ or ‘average tone’, and logat tekan ‘pressed/stressed
tone’ in Indonesian terminology, respectively (Donohue 2004: 54). The system of Skou tones is
described in detail in Donohue 2003. These tone varieties are marked here as high, middle and
low respectively. All vowels can be nasalized.
References
Donohue, Mark. 2002. Skou dictionary draft. s.l., ms. http://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-
0000-0012-7AB7-F.
Donohue, Mark. 2003. The tonal system of Skou, New Guinea. In Shigeki Kaji (ed.),
Proceedings of the symposium Cross-linguistic Studies of Tonal Phenomena: historical
development, phonetics of Tone, and descriptive studies, 329–365. Tokyo: Tokyo
University of Foreign studies.
Donohue, Mark. 2004. A grammar of the Skou language of New Guinea. National University of
Singapore, ms.
https://pure.mpg.de/pubman/faces/ViewItemOverviewPage.jsp?itemId=item_402710.
Authors:
Skou: Artem Trofimov, August 2021.
