Sentani language

Sentani or Buyaka is a Papuan language of Papua. It is spoken in about 30 scattered villages around Lake Sentani. Dialects are East, West, and Central (Ethnologue).

Sentani
Native to	Papua, Indonesia
Region	Lake Sentani, Papua
Native speakers	(30,000 cited 1996)[1]
Language family	Northwest Papuan? Demta–Sentani Sentani proper Sentani
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	set
Glottolog	nucl1632

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	b	d		k
Fricative	f~ɸ	s			h
Approximant	w	l	j

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open(-mid)	ɛ	a

Central Sentani

Central Sentani phonology from Foley (2018):Foley's (2018) classification is:^[2]

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p			k
Fricative	f				h
Approximant	w	l	j
Rhotic		r

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open	æ	a