Biritai language
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| Biritai | |
|---|---|
| Aliki | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Biri village in East Central Mambermano District, Mamberamo Raya Regency, Papua |
Native speakers | (250 cited 1988)[1] |
Lakes Plain
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bqq |
| Glottolog | biri1259 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
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
[edit | edit source]The following inventory is taken from Donohue (2017),[3] with a very small consonant inventory typical of the Lakes Plain languages.
Consonants
[edit | edit source]| Labial | Coronal | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | t | |
| voiced | b | 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
[edit | edit source]| Front | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | ||
| Close | i | ɯ | u |
| Close-mid | e | ||
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a | ||
Tone
[edit | edit source]Biritai is tonal.[citation needed]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Biritai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ Donohue, Mark. (2017) "Introduction to Typology 4: investigating phonological typology" (archived link). Living Tongues Institute, LSA Institute Kentucky, 2017 July 19.
- ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
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