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Rawa (Erawa, Erewa, Raua) is one of the Finisterre languages of Papua New Guinea. The two dialects, Rawa and Karo, are on opposite sides of the Finisterre Range.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ||
aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |||
prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
Fricative | s | h | ||||
Rhotic | r | |||||
Approximant | lateral | l | ||||
central | w | j |
- Voiceless stops /p, t, k/ are heard as voiced stops [b, d, ɡ] in the Karo dialect.[2]
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
High | i | u | |
High-mid | e | o | |
Low-mid | ɔ | ||
Low | a |
References
- ^ Rawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Toland, Norma & Donald (1991). Reference grammar of the Karo/Rawa language. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
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