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Kakabai language
Austronesian language spoken in Papua New Guinea From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Kakabai is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea.
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Phonology
- The labialized consonants /pʷ bʷ mʷ kʷ gʷ/ only appear before /a/.
- /l/ varies dialectally between [ɺ~ɾ~l].
- /ɣ/ is realized as [ʝ~h] before front vowels.
- /m/ can appear syllabically.
Stress is usually found on the penultimate syllable.[2]
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