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.
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 |
Yareba allows for the diphthongs ai, au, oi, ou, ei, ui, ua, ue. [3]: 87