Sentani or Buyaka is a

Papuan language The Papuan languages are the non- Austronesian and non-Australian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands, by around 4 million people. It is a strictly geogra ...

of Papua. It is spoken in about 30 scattered villages around

Lake Sentani Lake Sentani is a tropical, shallow, and at low-altitude open lake located at the northeast extremity of the Jayapura Regency in the Indonesian province of Papua, about from the provincial capital, Jayapura City. It is located just to the south ...

. Dialects are East, West, and Central (''Ethnologue'').

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

Central Sentani

Central Sentani phonology from Foley (2018): Foley's (2018) classification is:

Citations

References

External links

* Written materials for Sentani are available through

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{{Languages of Indonesia Languages of western New Guinea Sentani languages