Yil is a

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language of

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spoken in twelve villages in Sundaun province.

Phonology

This section follows Martens and Tuominen (1977). Yil has a small inventory of ten consonants: And seven vowels: In addition there are the diphthongs /ai̯ au̯ ay̯ ei̯/. /i u/ have non-syllabic allophones w~βin onset or coda position. /ɣ/ is devoiced to word-finally, e.g. /uəmaɣ/ əmax'hawk'.

Phonotactics

Maximum syllable structure is (C) (C) V (C) (C). Syllables with two-consonant codas only occur word-finally. Distribution of phonemes in different syllable types is shown in the table below. Stress usually falls on the first syllable, although it is contrastive in some verb forms, e.g. /əˈŋati/ "I bury a man" vs. /ˈəŋati/ "I hurry"

External links

* Paradisec has a collection of Don Laycock's
DL2
that includes Yil language materials.

References

Wapei languages Languages of Sandaun Province {{papuan-lang-stub