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Plosive
 p b         t d             k      
 
 
 
 
  
 
Affricates
                   dʒ                
 
 
 
 
 
 
Nasal
   m           n nʲ                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trill
                            
 
 
    
 
 
    
 
 
Tap, Flap
               ɾ                                
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                    
 
 
    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fricative
             s sʲ                                  
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
                            
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
                           j   w                
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
                            
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Open
Selected languages: Yawa
UPSID number: 8629
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Papuan, Geelvink Bay
The languages has 19 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds: [p] [b] [t] [d] [k] [sʲ] [s] [dʒ] [ɾ] [w] [j] [m] [nʲ] [n] [i] [u] [e̞] [o̞] [ä]
Comments:

Yawa is spoken on Yapen island, Irian Jaya,
Indonesia. Stress placement is unpredictable. After /u/
the palato-alveolar affricate has the allophone [g]. Nasal
+ obstruent clusters occur but Jones (1986) reports that
they are not homorganic if the obstruent is velar or
palato-alveolar, and are phonetically heterosyllabic where
intervocalic; hence, even initial cases are analyzed as
sequences. Many two-vowel sequences occur.
Sources:

Jones, L.K. 1986. Yawa phonology. Papers in New Guinea
linguistics, no. 25, 1-30. Pacific Linguistics, Series A,
No. 74. Australian National University, Canberra.