Biritai | |
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Aliki | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Biri village in East Central Mambermano District, Mamberamo Raya Regency, Papua |
Native speakers | (250 cited 1988) [1] |
Lakes Plain
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
bqq |
Glottolog |
biri1259 |
ELP | Biritai |
Biritai (Biri) is a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia. It is named after Biri village in East Central Mambermano District, Mamberamo Raya Regency. [2]
The following inventory is taken from Donohue (2017), [3] with a very small consonant inventory typical of the Lakes Plain languages.
Labial | Coronal | |
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Stop | b | t d |
Fricative | ɸ | s |
In an earlier paper co-authored by Donohue, [4] the approximants /j w/ are also included as phonemes. The authors note that Biritai is typologically unusual for missing series of velar, nasal and liquid consonants.
Front | Back | |
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Close | i | ɯ u |
Close-mid | e | |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ |
Open | a |