Bimin language

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]

Bimin
Region	Papua New Guinea
Native speakers	2,300 (2003)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Central & South New Guinea ? Ok Mountain Ok Bimin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	bhl
Glottolog	bimi1240
ELP	Bimin
OK-Oksapmin Languages

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants^[3][4]

		Labial	Alveolar	Velar
Plosive	Voiceless		t	k
	Voiced	b	d	g
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Lateral			l
Fricative		f	s

• /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

Vowels^[3][4]

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

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