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Mouk-Aria is an Austronesian language spoken by about 600 individuals along coastal West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea on the island of New Britain.

Phonology

• The nasal consonants /m n ŋ/ can appear as the syllabic nasals word-initially.
• The nasal consonants /m n ŋ/ sometimes appear as prenasalised voiced stops before /χ/.
• The voiced stops /b d g/ frequently manifest as fricatives after vowels.
• /χ/ is voiced between voiced segments.
• Sonorants /l m n ŋ/ are voiceless in clusters after voiceless stops.

• /i e/ manifest as before /χ/.

References

1. Mouk-Aria at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. ^ Thurston, William R. (1996). Ross, Malcolm D. (ed.). "The Bibling Languages of Northwestern New Britain". Studies in the Languages of New Britain and New Ireland 1: Austronesian Languages of the North New Guinea Cluster in Northwestern New Britain. Pacific Linguistics: Series C. 135. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University: 249–392.

External links

• EE-TAOW! The Mouk Story (Part 1) - New Tribes Mission 1999, featuring several Mouk speakers.

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