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Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 48, No. 2 (DECEMBER 2009), pp. 477-483 (7 pages) Alamblak is the easternmost of the Sepik Hill languages spoken in East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. Alamblak phonology ...
The Long Terawan Berawan system of vowel phonemes consists of one monophthong in the antepenult, schwa, and four monophthongs in the penult, i, ə, a, and u. However, the final syllable exhibits ten ...