Central Asmat language

Central Asmat is a Papuan language of West New Guinea, spoken by the Asmat people.

Dialects

Central Asmat has a number of dialects, which are:

Yaosakor Asmat, assigned its own ISO code, is a variety of Central Asmat, not a distinct language.

/p/ can be heard as a fricative when in intervocalic positions, as in the speech of older speakers when preceding /e/.
/tʃ/ can be heard as a palatalized when in word-final positions following /i/.
/k/ can be heard as a fricative when following a vowel and preceding a consonant.
/s/ can be heard as fricatives or among some older speakers.
/r/ can be heard as a flap in word-medial and word-final positions.
/ʝ/ can be heard as or in word-initial positions.
Nasals /m, n/ may fluctuate to voiced stops in word-initial positions, and as prenasal stops when in syllable-initial positions.