Aribwaung language

Aribwaung
Aribwaung
Yalu
Region	Markham Valley, New Guinea
Ethnicity	1,200 (2008?)
Native speakers	500 (2008)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Huon Gulf Markham Lower Markham Busu Aribwaung; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ylu
Glottolog	arib1240
	Coordinates: 6°35′43″S 146°52′26″E / 6.595186°S 146.873813°E

Aribwaung (Aribwaungg), also known as Yalu (Jaloc), is an Austronesian language of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in the single village of Yalu (6°35′43″S 146°52′26″E / 6.595186°S 146.873813°E / -6.595186; 146.873813 (Yalu)) in Wampar Rural LLG.

Phonology

		Labial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar	Glottal
		Labial	plain	sibilant	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n			ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	ts		k
	voiced	(b)		dz
	prenasal vl.	ᵐp	ⁿt	(ⁿts)		ᵑk
	prenasal vd.	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿdz		ᵑɡ
Fricative	voiceless	f		s			h
Fricative	voiced	β
Rhotic			r
Approximant		w	(l)		j

/β/ may also be heard as a voiced plosive [b] in free variation among speakers.
/r/ may range to a lateral [l] in free variation among speakers.
/ⁿts/ only occurs in a few examples.
Sounds /ts, ⁿts, dz, ⁿdz/ may have palatalized [tʃ, ⁿtʃ, dʒ, ⁿdʒ] and non-palatalized allophones, alternating freely in all positions.
/h/ is rare.

↑ Aribwaung language at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
↑ Aribwaung at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
1 2 Holzknecht, Susanne (1989). The Markham Languages of Papua New Guinea. Pacific Linguistics. ISBN 0-85883-394-8.