Mouk-Aria language

Mouk-Aria
Mouk-Aria
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	coastal West New Britain Province
Native speakers	(630 cited 1982)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea Ngero–Vitiaz Southwest New Britain Bibling Mouk-Aria; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mwh
Glottolog	mouk1239

Mouk-Aria is an Austronesian language spoken by about 600 individuals along coastal West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea on the island of New Britain.

Phonology

The nasal consonants /m n ŋ/ can appear as the syllabic nasals [m̩ n̩ ŋ̍] word-initially.
The nasal consonants /m n ŋ/ sometimes appear as prenasalised voiced stops [mb nd ŋg] before /χ/.
The voiced stops /b d g/ frequently manifest as fricatives [β ɹ ɣ] after vowels.
/χ/ is voiced [ʁ] between voiced segments.
Sonorants /l m n ŋ/ are voiceless [l̥ m̥ n̥ ŋ̊] in clusters after voiceless stops.

↑ Mouk-Aria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
1 2 Thurston, William R. (1996). Ross, Malcolm D. (ed.). "The Bibling Languages of Northwestern New Britain". Studies in the Languages of New Britain and New Ireland 1: Austronesian Languages of the North New Guinea Cluster in Northwestern New Britain. Pacific Linguistics: Series C. 135. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University: 249–392.