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Bimin language

Ok language spoken in New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Bimin language
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Bim or Bimin is one of the Ok languages of New Guinea. It is spoken in Sandaun and Western Provinces in the region between the Murray and Strickland Rivers. The language is related to Faiwol but there is also "much intermarriage and cultural exchange with Oksapmin".[2]

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Phonology

Consonants

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  • /k/ can be pronounced [kχ]~[χ]~[gχ]~[ɣ].[4]
  • /g/ is [g] in syllable onsets and [ŋ] in syllable codas.[5]
  • Intervocalic /b/ is "almost like" /w/ or [β].[4]
  • /f/ is [w] syllable initially and intervocalically and [p] syllable finally.[4]
  • /l/ is [l]~[ɾ] and never occurs word initially.[4]


Vowels

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  • Weber (2003) uses [ɐ] instead of [a].[4]
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References

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