Biritai language

Biritai
Aliki
Native toIndonesia
RegionBiri village in East Central Mambermano District, Mamberamo Raya Regency, Papua
Native speakers
(250 cited 1988)
Lakes Plain
  • Central
    • Biritai
Language codes
ISO 639-3bqq
Glottologbiri1259
ELPBiritai

Biritai (Biri) is a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia. It is named after Biri village in East Central Mambermano District, Mamberamo Raya Regency.

Phonology

The following inventory is taken from Donohue (2017), 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, 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

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