Language
Biritai |
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Aliki |
Native to | Indonesia |
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Region | Biri village in East Central Mambermano District, Mamberamo Raya Regency, Papua |
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Native speakers | (250 cited 1988)[1] |
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Language family | |
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Language codes |
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ISO 639-3 | bqq |
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Glottolog | biri1259 |
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ELP | Biritai |
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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]
Phonology
The following inventory is taken from Donohue (2017),[3] with a very small consonant inventory typical of the Lakes Plain languages.
Consonants
| Labial | Coronal |
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.
Vowels
| Front | Back |
Close | i | ɯ u |
Close-mid | e | |
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ |
Open | a |
References
- ^ Biritai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- ^ Donohue, Mark. (2017) "Introduction to Typology 4: investigating phonological typology". Living Tongues Institute, LSA Institute Kentucky, 2017 July 19.
- ^ Ross, Bill; Donohue, Mark (2011). "The many origins of diversity and complexity in phonology" (PDF). Linguistic Typology (15): 251–266.
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