| Burum | |
| Nativename: | Mindik |
| States: | Papua New Guinea |
| Region: | Huon Peninsula, Morobe Province |
| Speakers: | 9,000 |
| Date: | 2000 census |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Papuan |
| Fam1: | Trans–New Guinea |
| Fam2: | Finisterre–Huon |
| Fam3: | Huon |
| Fam4: | Western Huon |
| Iso3: | bmu |
| Glotto: | buru1306 |
| Glottorefname: | Burum-Mindik |
| Dia1: | Somba |
| Dia2: | Siawari |
Burum (also known as Yaknge or Somba-Siawari after its two dialects and Mindik in the language itself) is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Its closest related language is Borong (also known as Kosorong).
| Labial ! | Velar | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | ||||||
| unvoiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| unvoiced | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| voiced | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Trill | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
| Close | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |
| Open | pronounced as /ink/ |
Burum also has 14 diphthongs: pronounced as //iɑ//, pronounced as //iu//, pronounced as //ei//, pronounced as //eu//, pronounced as //əi//, pronounced as //əu//, pronounced as //oi//, pronounced as //oe//, pronounced as //ou//, pronounced as //ɑi//, pronounced as //ɑu//, pronounced as //ui//, pronounced as //ue//, and pronounced as //uɑ//.
| Uppercase letters | A | B | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | Ŋ | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | W | Gw | Y | Z | Ö | |
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| Lowercase letters | a | b | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | ŋ | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | w | gw | y | z | ö | |
| IPA | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as //dz// | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ |