Mapos Buang language

Mapos Buang, also known as Mapos or Central Buang, is an Oceanic language in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Mapos Buang has a larger sound inventory than is typical of most Austronesian languages. Notable is the existence of a phonemic contrast between a velar nasal and a uvular nasal, which is extremely rare among the world's languages. Along with this, its phonology is unusually symmetrical compared to most other languages.

Vowels

* is a prominent feature of Buang phonology, but is not contrastive. Thus both it and are represented with.
Vowel length is shown in the orthography by doubling the letter.

Consonants

* is a bilabial approximant or semivowel with no co-articulated velar component. It is placed in the labio-velar series of the chart as it fills a gap in this position. is a voiced bilabial fricative.
Orthography is the same as in the IPA when nothing is shown.