Waima language

Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Waima language (sometimes known as Roro, though this is strictly the name of one dialect of Waima) is a Nuclear West Central Papuan Tip language of the Oceanic group of Malayo-Polynesian languages, spoken in Papua New Guinea by 15,000 people. The three dialects, Waima, Roro, and Paitana, are very close.[2]

Phonology

Consonants

More information Labial, Alveolar ...
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/n/ can be palatalized as [ɲ] when before vowel sequences /ao, au/.[3]

Vowels

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