Yareba
RegionPapua New Guinea: Ijitivari and Popondetta districts
Native speakers
1,200 (2000)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
Language codes
ISO 639-3yrb
Glottologyare1248

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

Phonology

Yareba phonology:[2]

Consonants Labial Coronal Dorsal
Nasal m n
Stop p b t d k g
Affricative dz
Fricative s
Glide w j
Flap ɾ
Front Back
Close i u
Mid e o
Open a

Yareba allows for the diphthongs ai, au, oi, ou, ei, ei, ui, ua, ue.[3]:87

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

References

  1. Yareba at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. "YAREBA". web.phonetik.uni-frankfurt.de. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  3. Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–196. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.


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