Bwaidoka language

Bwaidoka
Bwaidoka
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Milne Bay Province (Goodenough Island, Fergusson Island)
Native speakers	(6,500 cited 2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Nuclear Papuan Tip North Papuan Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux Bwaidoga Bwaidoka; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bwd
Glottolog	bwai1242

Bwaidoka is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a local lingua franca.

Phonology

		Labial		Dental/ Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
		plain	lab.	Dental/ Alveolar	Palatal	plain	lab.
Plosive	voiceless			t		k	kʷ
Plosive	voiced	b	bʷ			ɡ
Fricative	voiceless	f	fʷ	s
Fricative	voiced	v
Nasal		m	mʷ	n
Lateral				l
Approximant					j	w

/t/ can be pronounced as alveolar [t], or dental [t̪] when preceding central or back vowels.
/ɡ/ can be pronounced as a voiced plosive [ɡ], or as a fricative [ɣ] on an unstressed syllable.
/j/ can be pronounced as either [j] or as [ð] in free variation.

Vowel sounds /i, o, u/ do not occur following labialized consonants.
/e/ may fluctuate freely from [e] to [ə] in syllable-final, and with [ɛ] as the first vowel sound on stressed syllables.
/a/ may fluctuate freely from [a] to [ə] on unstressed syllables and as the second vowel sound on stressed syllables.
/o/ may fluctuate freely from [o] to [ɔ] on unstressed syllables and as the second vowel sound on stressed syllables.

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