One language

One
Aunalei
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	West Wapei Rural LLG, Sandaun Province
Native speakers	4,500 (2000)[1]
Language family	Torricelli One One
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously: onr – Northern oin – Inebu aun – Molmo onk – Kabore okk – Kwamtim osu – Southern
Linguist List	qaz One
Glottolog	onee1245
ELP	One

One (also known as Onele and Aunalei)[2] is a Torricelli dialect cluster of West Wapei Rural LLG in Sandaun Province, Papua New Guinea.[3]

Languages

Glottolog 4.0 lists the following One varieties as separate languages:

• Southern One
• Kwamtim One
• Central-Northern One
  • Inebu
  • Kabore
  • Molmo
  • Northern One

A detailed dialectology of One is described in Crowther (2001).[4]

The One dialects are spoken in the following villages and wards of West Wapei Rural LLG, Sandaun Province.[3][5]

• Kwamtim One is spoken in Kwamtum (3.447311°S 141.909351°E / -3.447311; 141.909351 (Kwamtum)) and Kwatim (3.45713°S 141.907889°E / -3.45713; 141.907889 (Kwatim)) villages.
• Inebu One is spoken in Inebu ward (3.381711°S 141.936°E / -3.381711; 141.936 (Inebu)).
• Kabore One is spoken in Kabore ward (3.314106°S 141.840799°E / -3.314106; 141.840799 (Kabore 1)).
• Molmo One is spoken in Molmo ward (3.362595°S 141.855041°E / -3.362595; 141.855041 (Molmo)).

Phonology

Molmo One consonants are:[6]

m	n
p	t	k
f	s
w	l	j
	r

Molmo One vowels are:[6]

i	ɨ	u
e		o
ɛ	a	ɔ

Pronouns

Molmo One pronouns:[6]: 334 

	sg	du	pl
1incl		mimpla ~ fimpla	mine
1excl	i	mumpla ~ fumpla	mo
2	(y)ine ~ yo	pimpla	pine ~ po
3	wine ~ wo	numpla	nine ~ no

Nouns

Molmo One nominal plural formatives include:[6]

gloss	singular	plural
‘woman’	pino	pini
‘wife’	puli	pulpi
‘flower’	sula	sulu
‘lizard’	saunina	saune
‘mosquito’	unkun	unkle
‘thorn’	neni	nenine

Further reading

• Donohue, Mark P. n.d. Lexical categories, complexity and the configurationality split in One. Unpublished manuscript, Department of Linguistics, Monash University.

References

1. Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Inebu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Molmo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Kabore at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Kwamtim at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   Southern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. "OLAC resources in and about the Molmo One language". www.language-archives.org. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
3. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
4. Crowther, Melissa. 2001. All the One language(s): comparing linguistic and ethnographic definitions of language in New Guinea. MA thesis, University of Sydney.
5. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
6. Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.