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Language in Papua
Korowai (Kolufaup) is a Trans-New-Guinean language spoken in South Papua, Indonesia. It is spoken by the Korowai people who live along the Becking River.
- /b/ and /d/ are in free variation with [ɓ] and [ɗ] respectively.
- /ɸ x/ can be voiced [β ɣ] intervocalically.
- /e/ can be heard as [ɪ] in unstressed syllables.
- /a/ can vary to [æ] in stressed syllables.
- /ɔ/ is pronounced [o] before /w/.
- All vowels are lengthened in stressed syllables and word-finally.
- /ə/ is epenthetic and is never in stressed syllables.
Stress is unpredictable and phonemic.[2]
- ^ Korowai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ a b c de Vries, Lourens; van Enk, Gerrit J. (1997). The Korowai of Irian Jaya: Their Language and its Cultural Context. Oxford Studies in Anthropological Linguistics. Vol. 9. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780195105513.
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