Parawen is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.
| Parawen | |
|---|---|
| Para | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Madang Province |
| Ethnicity | 760 (2000 census)[1] |
Native speakers | (430 cited 1981)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | prw |
| Glottolog | para1307 |
Phonology
editParawen has a small phonemic inventory of nine consonants and three vowels.[2]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | /t/ | /k/ | ||
| voiced | /b/ | /d/ | /g/ | ||
| Nasal | /m/ | /n/ | |||
| Glide | /w/ | /j/ | |||
An epenthetic vowel, generally /ɑ/ but /u/ if the preceding vowel is also /u/, which is usually inserted following a word-final consonant. /b/ is devoiced to [p] word-finally, even when an epenthetic vowel follows. /t/ is realised as [s] adjacent to /i/, and /d/ is [r] post-vocalically.
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | /i/ | /u/ |
| Low | /ɑ/ |
References
edit- ^ a b Parawen at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Pick, Andrew (2020). A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. p. 158.
