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| Selected languages: | Yessan-mayo |
| UPSID number: | 8632 |
| Alternate name(s): | N/A |
| Classification: | Papuan, Sepik-Ramu |
| The languages has | 20 segments |
| Frequency index: | N/A |
| Sounds: | [ⁿb] [ⁿd] [tʰ] [ⁿɡʷ] [kʷ] [ⁿɡ] [kʰ] [s] [ɸ] [r] [l] [w] [j] [m] [n] [ɨ] [ɜ] [ä] [ɒ] [h] |
| Comments: | Yessan-Mayo is spoken upriver from Ambunti, East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Stress is initial except when /a/ occurs in a subsequent syllable and attracts stress to that syllable. Vowel allophones are very variable. Rounded allophones of central vowels occur before and after /w/ and after labialized velars. Fronted allophones occur contiguous to /i/ and, often, with bilabials. |
| Sources: | Foreman, Velma and Helen Marten. 1973. Yessan-Mayo phonemes. In Phonologies of Three Papua New Guinea Languages (Workpapers in Papua New Guinea Languages 2). Summer Institute of Linguistics, Ukarumpa. |