Tok Abau

Tok Abau
Tokples istap long	Papua Niugini
Rijen	Sandaun
Total spikas	4,500–5,000
Famili bilong tokples	Sepik Upper Sepik Tok Abau; ;
Ol kod bilong tokples
ISO 639-2	paa
ISO 639-3	aau
	Dispela pes bai soim sampela ol IPA raitim long soim pasin bilong singaut.

Tok Abau emi wanpela tok ples bilong Papua Niugini, long Sandaun provins. Long 2002, i bin klostu 4,500 o 5,000 spikas, na dispela namba i no bin kisim moa smol long nambawan nambaim stret tru inap long yia 1970s.

Ponoloji[senisim | edit source]

Vowels^[1]
	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e	ə	o
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open		a

/ə/ appears only in medial positions.^[1]

Consonants^[1]
	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p			k
Fricative		s			h
Flap		r
Approximant			j	w

/r/ has several allophones: word-initially, it is [l], after /n/ it is [d], [r] intervocalically, and [t] or [ɺ] word-finally. /h/ becomes [ç] before /i/ and [ɸ] before /u/. Plosives are voiced when following nasal consonants.^[1]

Notes[senisim | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Laycock (1965:116)

(Dispela pes Tok Abau em i liklik tumas. Yu inap raitim moa sapos yu laik halivim Wikipedia. Hau?)

[harvcoltxt|Laycock|1965|p=116-1] 1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 ^1.3 Laycock (1965:116)

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