Phonology Labu language
1 phonology
1.1 vowels (orthographic)
1.2 consonants (orthographic)
1.3 tone contrasts
phonology
labu distinguishes 7 vowels , 17 consonants. vowels exhibit contrasts between high , low pitch (or tone ), in yabêm, lutheran mission lingua franca coastal languages of morobe province during of 20th century. orthography of labu based on of yabêm (= jabêm), except y replaces yabêm j.
vowels (orthographic)
consonants (orthographic)
tone contrasts
the vowels of words in labu distinguished lowered pitch, marked orthographically grave accent. labu distinctions in tone based on register tone, not contour tone in mandarin chinese. register tone contrasts relatively recent innovation of north huon gulf languages, many labu speakers include in linguistic repertoires, 1 should not voice contrasts in proto-oceanic (poc) or other ancestral language explain origins of tone contrasts in labu. instead, 1 should areal influences, neighboring bukawa.
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