Mouk-Aria language

Mouk-Aria is an Austronesian language spoken by about 600 individuals along coastal West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea on the island of New Britain.

Phonology

The nasal consonants /m n ŋ/ can appear as the syllabic nasals word-initially.
The nasal consonants /m n ŋ/ sometimes appear as prenasalised voiced stops before /χ/.
The voiced stops /b d g/ frequently manifest as fricatives after vowels.
/χ/ is voiced between voiced segments.
Sonorants /l m n ŋ/ are voiceless in clusters after voiceless stops.

	Front	Central	Back
High
Mid
Low

/i e/ manifest as before /χ/.