Wano language

Wano is a Papuan language of the Indonesian New Guinea Highlands.

Wano
RegionHighlands of Irian Jaya
Native speakers
1,000 (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3wno
Glottologwano1243[2]

Phonology
Consonant phonemes[3]
Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n
Plosive p b t d k ʔ
Fricative β
Approximant j w
Vowel phonemes[3]
Front Back
High i u
Mid ɛ ɔ
Close a


As well as the monophthongs described above, Wano also has seven diphthongs: /i̯a/, /ɛi̯/, /ai̯/, /au̯/, /ɔi̯/, /ɔu̯/, and /ui̯/.[3]

Allophony

The voiced plosives /b/ and /d/ are imploded word-initially and intervocalically.[3]
When a nasal occurs before /p/, /p/ becomes a prenasalized voiced plosive [ᵐb]. Similarly, when a nasal occurs before /t/ or /k/, they become, respectively, [ⁿd] and [ᵑɡ].[3]
/p/, /k/, /ɡ/, and /ɡ/'s allophone, [ᵑɡ] become labialized before /w/, with /ɡ/ becoming [ɣʷ].[3]
The sequences /tj/ and /dj/ become the palatal fricatives /ç ʝ/.[3]

gollark: I am boycotting your code if you do this.
gollark: I've seen it loads when demoing things.
gollark: Imagine how your "cool" hover-based UI will look if:- it completely fails to operate on the second-latest CC:T version- it breaks horribly with multiple players using it- it runs slowly because of the mouse_move throttling and/or the server having to process significantly more events- mousing over a button hides important stuff under it (this tends to happen a lot)
gollark: AAAAA PLEASE NO
gollark: Dragging is fine. But NO hovery stuff.

See also
  • Duvle-Wano Pidgin

References
  1. Wano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Wano". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Burung, Willem (2007). The Phonology of Wano (PDF). SIL International.


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