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Selected languages: | Baining |
UPSID number: | 8631 |
Alternate name(s): | N/A |
Classification: | Papuan, East Papuan |
The languages has | 22 segments |
Frequency index: | N/A |
Sounds: | [ⁿb] [p] [ⁿd] [t] [ⁿɡ] [k] [s] [ɣ] [ɾ] [l] [w] [m] [n] [ŋ] [i] [u] [o̞] [ɛ] [ä] [ɛi] [äi] [äu] |
Comments: | Baining is spoken on the Gazelle Peninsula, New Britain, Papua New Guinea. Voiceless stops /p t k/ have voiced bilabial fricative, voiced alveolar flap and voiced velar fricative respectively common intervocalic variants. All vowels occur long and short. |
Sources: | Parker, Jim & Diana Parker. 1974. "A tentative phonology of Baining (Kakat dialect)". In Phonologies of Four Papua New Guinea Languages (Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages, vol. 4) Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ukarumpa: 5-43. |