Yareba language
Yareba | |
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Region | Papua New Guinea: Ijitivari and Popondetta districts |
Native speakers | 1,200 (2000)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | yrb |
Glottolog | yare1248 |
Yareba, or Middle Musa, is a language of Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
Yareba has 15 phonemic consonants and 5 monophthongs.[2]
Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ||
Stop | Voiceless | t | k | |
Voiced | b | d | g | |
Affricate | dz | |||
Fricative | ɸ | s | ||
Glide | w | j | ||
Flap | ɾ |
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i | u | |
Mid | e̞ | o̞ | |
Open | ä |
- /t/ and /k/ are aspirated.[2]
- /dz/ can be pronounced [dz], [dʒ], and [z].[2]
- /ɾ/ can be pronounced [ɾ] or [ɺ].[2]
- /w/ is [β] next to /i/ and /e/, [w] between [a] and [ai], and [v] elsewhere.[2]
Yareba allows for the diphthongs ai, au, oi, ou, ei, ui, ua, ue.[3]: 87
External links
References
- ^ Yareba at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ a b c d e Weimer, Harry; Weimer, Natalia (1972). "Yareba phonemes". Te Reo. 15: 52–57.
- ^ Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". 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. 21–196. hdl:20.500.12657/23719. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.