Aribwaung language

Aribwaung (Aribwaungg), also known as Yalu (Jaloc), is an Austronesian language of Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. It is spoken in the single village of Yalu (6.595186°S 146.873813°E / -6.595186; 146.873813 (Yalu)) in Wampar Rural LLG.^[3]

Aribwaung
Yalu
Region	Markham Valley, New Guinea
Ethnicity	1,200 (2008?)[1]
Native speakers	500 (2008)[2]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Huon Gulf Markham Lower Markham Busu Aribwaung
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ylu
Glottolog	arib1240
Coordinates: 6.595186°S 146.873813°E / -6.595186; 146.873813 (Yalu)

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar	Glottal
			plain	sibilant
Nasal		m	n			ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	ts		k
	voiced	(b)		dz
	prenasal vl.	ᵐp	ⁿt	(ⁿts)		ᵑk
	prenasal vd.	ᵐb	ⁿd	ⁿdz		ᵑɡ
Fricative	voiceless	f		s			h
	voiced	β
Rhotic			r
Approximant		w	(l)		j

• /β/ may also be heard as a voiced plosive [b] in free variation among speakers.
• /r/ may range to a lateral [l] in free variation among speakers.
• /ⁿts/ only occurs in a few examples.
• Sounds /ts, ⁿts, dz, ⁿdz/ may have palatalized [tʃ, ⁿtʃ, dʒ, ⁿdʒ] and non-palatalized allophones, alternating freely in all positions.
• /h/ is rare.^[3]

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	ɛ		ɔ
Low		a