Wano 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 the Indonesian New Guinea Highlands.
Phonology
As well as the
monophthong
A monophthong ( ; , ) is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at both beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation. The monophthongs can be contrasted with diphthongs, w ...
s described above, Wano also has seven
diphthong
A diphthong ( ; , ), also known as a gliding vowel, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable. Technically, a diphthong is a vowel with two different targets: that is, the tongue (and/or other parts of the speech ...
s: .
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Allophony
The voiced plosives // and // are imploded word-initially and intervocalically.[ ]
When a nasal occurs before //, // becomes a prenasalized voiced plosive ��b Similarly, when a nasal occurs before // or //, they become, respectively, ��dand ��ɡ[ ]
//, //, //, and //'s allophone
In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek , , 'other' and , , 'voice, sound') is a set of multiple possible spoken soundsor ''phones''or signs used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, in English, (as in '' ...
, ��ɡbecome labialized before //, with // becoming [].[ ]
The Consonant cluster, sequences /tj/ and /dj/ become the palatal fricatives / /.[
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See also
*Duvle-Wano Pidgin
References
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Dani languages
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