Nama (or Noraia) is a Yam language spoken in

Western Province Western Province or West Province may refer to: *Western Province, Cameroon *Western Province, Rwanda *Western Province (Kenya) *Western Province (Papua New Guinea) *Western Province (Solomon Islands) *Western Province, Sri Lanka *Western Provinc ...

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Phonology

Consonants

* Sounds /p/ and /ɡʷ/ only occur marginally^{laboration needed/sup>.
* Sounds /t, d, ⁿd/ may range in articulation, varying from dental ̪, d̪, ⁿd̪to alveolar , d, ⁿd
* /r/ can be heard as a tap �when in rapid speech and in consonant clusters.
* /ɸ/ can become voiced as �when intervocalically or word-finally.
* /ɣ/ can also be heard as �in some contexts^{hat contexts?/sup>.
* Sounds /n, r/ can occur as geminates ː, rː

Vowels

* Sounds /i, o, u/ can be heard as � � �, ʉwithin diphthongs.

References

{{Languages of Papua New Guinea

Nambu languages
Languages of Western Province (Papua New Guinea)}}