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Wano language

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Native speakers
  
1,000 (2011)

Glottolog
  
wano1243

ISO 639-3
  
wno

Region
  
Highlands of Irian Jaya

Language family
  
Trans–New Guinea West Trans–New Guinea Irian Highlands ? Dani languages Wano

Wano is a Papuan language of the Indonesian New Guinea Highlands.

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Phonology


As well as the monophthongs described above, Wano also has seven diphthongs: /i̯a/, /ɛi̯/, /ai̯/, /au̯/, /ɔi̯/, /ɔu̯/, and /ui̯/.

Allophony

The voiced plosives /b/ and /d/ are imploded word-initially and intervocalically.
When a nasal occurs before /p/, /p/ becomes a prenasalized voiced plosive [ᵐb]. Similarly, when a nasal occurs before /t/ or /ɡ/, they become, respectively, [ⁿd] and [ᵑɡ].
/p/, /k/, /ɡ/, and /ɡ/'s allophone, [ᵑɡ] become labialized before /w/, with /ɡ/ becoming [ɣʷ].
The sequences /tj/ and /dj/ become the palatal fricatives /ç ʝ/.

References

Wano language Wikipedia