Sentani language

Sentani or Buyaka is a Papuan language of Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken in about 30 scattered villages. Dialects are East, West, and Central (Ethnologue).

Sentani
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Lake Sentani, Papua
Native speakers	30,000 (1996)[1]
Language family	Northwest Papuan? Demta–Sentani Sentani proper Sentani
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	set
Glottolog	nucl1632[2]

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m		n
Plosive	b		d		k
Fricative		f~ɸ	s			h
Approximant	w		l	j

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open(-mid)	ɛ	a

Central Sentani

Central Sentani phonology from Foley (2018):Foley's (2018) classification is:[3]

Consonants

m	n
p		k
f			h
w	l	j
	r

Vowels

i		u
e	ə	o
æ	a

Citations

1. Sentani at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sentani". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
3. Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". 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. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.

References

• Cowan, H. K. J. (1965). Grammar of the Sentani Language (PDF). ’s-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Written materials for Sentani are available through Kaipuleohone