Fore language

Fore or Foré is a Kainantu-Goroka language spoken in the Goroka District of Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

The consonants of Fore are as follows:
All the dental consonants can vary to alveolar, except /t̪/ which is always dental. /p/, /t̪/, and /k/ are pronounced as /b~β/, /ɾ~l/, and /g~ɣ/ between vowels, and /p~ɸ/, /t̪~t/, /k~x/ word initially/. Velar consonants are labialized after rounded vowels. /j/ is often pronounced as a fricative /ʝ/.
Fore has six vowels:

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	eː	ʌ	oː
Open		aː

It also has four diphthongs: ae, ao, ai, and au.
Fore has a pitch accent system. Each syllable is either accented or unaccented. Multiple accented syllables can occur in the same word, but they cannot be adjacent to each other.