Yareba language

Yareba, or Middle Musa, is a language of Papua New Guinea.

Yareba
Region	Papua New Guinea: Ijitivari and Popondetta districts
Native speakers	(1,200 cited 2000)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Yareban Nawaru–Yareba Yareba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yrb
Glottolog	yare1248

Phonology

Yareba has 15 phonemic consonants and 5 monophthongs.^[2]

Consonants

		Labial	Coronal	Dorsal
Nasal		m	n
Stop	Voiceless		t	k
	Voiced	b	d	g
Affricate			dz
Fricative		ɸ	s
Glide		w		j
Flap			ɾ

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e̞		o̞
Open		ä

• /t/ and /k/ are aspirated.^[2]
• /dz/ can be pronounced [dz], [dʒ], and [z].^[2]
• /ɾ/ can be pronounced [ɾ] or [ɺ].^[2]
• /w/ is [β] next to /i/ and /e/, [w] between [a] and [ai], and [v] elsewhere.^[2]

Yareba allows for the diphthongs ai, au, oi, ou, ei, ui, ua, ue.^[3]: 87

External links

• Paradisec has the Tom Dutton collection (TD1) that includes Yareba language materials.