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p ⁿb         t ⁿd             k ⁿɡ    
 
 
 
 
 
 
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  m           n               ŋ    
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Tap, Flap
              ɾ                                
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
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            s                 ɣ                
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
                           
 
 
 
 
 
 
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                              w                
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
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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:
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.