Binandere language
Binandere is a Papuan language spoken in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
Binandere has 11 consonants: voiced and voiceless bilabials, alveolars, and velars; voiced labial and alveolar nasals; the flap /ɾ/; the voiced bilabial fricative /β/ and the palatal approximant /j/.
Binandere also has the 5 common vowels /ɑ e i o u/ and their five nasal counterparts.
These vowels can be combined to form up to 11 possible diphthongs:
- Oral: /iu/ /ei/ /eo/ /eu/ /ɑi/ /ɑe/ /ɑo/ /ɑu/ /oi/ /oe/ /ou/
- Nasal: /ẽĩ/ /ɑ̃ĩ/ /ɑ̃õ/ /õũ/
Evolution
Below are some reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea proposed by Pawley (2012):
References
External links
- Doregari Kotopu Anglican Holy Communion in Binandere, digitized by Richard Mammana and Charles Wohlers
- Benunu tepo ae sakrament da kandoari ae ekalesia da jimbo nenei ainda book England da ekalesia da jimbo ango (1959) Book of Common Prayer digitized by Richard Mammana
- King, Copland. 1927. Grammar and Dictionary of the Binandere Language, Mamba River, North Division, Papua. Sydney: D.S. Ford. [1]
- "A Selective Word List in Ten Different Binadere Languages" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-10. Retrieved 2018-07-10.
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