Agarabi language explained

Agarabi
Speakers:	27,000
Date:	2000 census
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Papuan
Iso3:	agd
Glotto:	agar1252
Glottorefname:	Agarabi

Agarabi, also called Bare, is a Kainantu language spoken in Agarabi Rural LLG, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/			pronounced as /link/
Plosive	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Rhotic		pronounced as /link/
Approximant	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/

• Sounds pronounced as //p, t, k, w// may fluctuate to fricative sounds pronounced as /[ɸ, s, x, β]/ when between oral vowels.
• Sounds pronounced as //p, t// may also be heard as voiced pronounced as /[b, d]/ within complex syllable nuclei.
• pronounced as //n// may be heard as pronounced as /[ŋ]/ when before pronounced as //k//.
• pronounced as //r// can be heard as either a tap pronounced as /[ɾ]/ or a trill pronounced as /[r]/.
• pronounced as //ʔ// may occasionally fluctuate to a fricative pronounced as /[h]/.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Mid	pronounced as /link/	(pronounced as /link/)	pronounced as /link/
Open		pronounced as /link/

A lax pronounced as //a// is said to be heard as pronounced as /[ə]/.^[1]

External links

• New Testament in Agarabi

Notes and References

1. Book: Bee, Darlene . Notes on Agarabi phonology . Luff . Lorna . Goddard . Jean . Seattle: University of Washington . 1973 . In Howard McKaughan (ed.), The languages of the Eastern Family of the East New Guinea Highland Stock . 414–423.