Aribwaung language

Aribwaung (Aribwaungg), also known as Yalu (Jaloc), is an Austronesian language of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in the single village of Yalu () in Wampar Rural LLG.

Phonology

Consonants

• /β/ may also be heard as a voiced plosive [b] in free variation among speakers.
• /r/ may range to a lateral [l] in free variation among speakers.
• /ⁿts/ only occurs in a few examples.
• Sounds /ts, ⁿts, dz, ⁿdz/ may have palatalized [tʃ, ⁿtʃ, dʒ, ⁿdʒ] and non-palatalized allophones, alternating freely in all positions.
• /h/ is rare.

Vowels

References