Yareba language explained

Yareba
Region:	Papua New Guinea Ijitivari and Popondetta districts
Date:	2000
Ref:	e25
Familycolor:	Papuan
Fam1:	Trans–New Guinea
Fam2:	Yareban
Fam3:	Nawaru–Yareba
Iso3:	yrb
Glotto:	yare1248
Glottorefname:	Yareba

Yareba, or Middle Musa, is a language of Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Yareba has 15 phonemic consonants and 5 monophthongs.^[1]

!Labial!Coronal!Dorsal

Nasal		pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/
Stop	Voiceless		pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/
	Voiced	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/
Affricate			pronounced as /ink/
Fricative		pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/
Glide		pronounced as /ink/		pronounced as /ink/
Flap			pronounced as /ink/

	Front	Central	Back
Close	pronounced as /ink/		pronounced as /ink/
Mid	pronounced as /ink/		pronounced as /ink/
Open		pronounced as /ink/

Yareba allows for the diphthongs ai, au, oi, ou, ei, ui, ua, ue.^[2]

External links

• Paradisec has the Tom Dutton collection (TD1) that includes Yareba language materials.

Notes and References

1. Web site: YAREBA. web.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de. 2019-05-14.
2. Book: Pawley . Andrew . Hammarström . Harald . Palmer . Bill . 2018 . The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide . The Trans New Guinea family . The World of Linguistics . 4 . Berlin . De Gruyter Mouton . 21–196 . 978-3-11-028642-7 . 20.500.12657/23719 . free.