Kire language

Kire (Giri) is a Ramu language of Giri village (4.286778°S 144.724753°E / -4.286778; 144.724753 (Giri 1)) in Yawar Rural LLG, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea.[3][4]

Kire
Giri
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province
Native speakers	2,400 (2003)[1]
Language family	Ramu Ramu proper Lower Ramu Misegian Kire
Language codes
ISO 639-3	geb
Glottolog	kire1240[2]
Coordinates: 4.286778°S 144.724753°E / -4.286778; 144.724753 (Giri 1)

Phonology

Out of all the Ramu languages, Kire has the most complex consonant phonemic inventory. The Kire consonants are:[5]

p	t	k
pʰ	tʰ	kʰ
ᵐp	ⁿt	ᵑk
b	d	ɡ
ᵐb	ⁿd	ᵑg
f	s	h
v	z
fʰ	sʰ
	n
	z
m	n	ŋ
	r
ʋ	j

Orthography

Kire orthography:[6]

Kire alphabet

Phonemes	ɑ	ɑ̃	b	β	d	e	ẽ	f	g	h	i	ĩ	ɨ	ɨ̃	k	kʰ	m	ᵐb	ᵐp	n
Lowercase letters	a	ä	b	b̄	d	e	ë	f	g	h	i	ï	ɨ	ɨ̈	k	kh	m	mb	mp	n
Phonemes	ⁿd	ⁿt	ŋ	ᵑg	ᵑk	o	õ	p	pʰ	r	s	s̪	t	tʰ	u	ũ	v	w	z
Lowercase letters	nd	nt	ŋ	ŋg	ŋk	o	ö	p	ph	r	s	š	t	th	u	ü	v	w	z

References

1. Kire at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kire". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Papua New Guinea languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
4. United Nations in Papua New Guinea (2018). "Papua New Guinea Village Coordinates Lookup". Humanitarian Data Exchange. 1.31.9.
5. Foley, William A. (2018). "The Languages of the Sepik-Ramu Basin and Environs". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 197–432. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
6. "Organised Phonology Data Kire". SIL.