Wano language
Wano is a Baliem Valley language spoken by the Wano people in Puncak and Puncak Jaya regencies of the Indonesian province of Central Papua.
Phonology
As well as the monophthongs described above, Wano also has seven diphthongs:.Allophony
- The voiced plosives // and // are imploded to and when word-initially and intervocalically.
- When a nasal occurs before //, // becomes a prenasalized voiced plosive . Similarly, when a nasal occurs before // or //, they become, respectively, and .
- and intervocalically become and.
- //, //, //, and //'s allophone, become labialized before //, with // becoming .
- The sequences /tj/ and /dj/ become the palatal fricatives / /. However, this analysis more signifies the corresponding Dutch digraphs, since these have no morphological significance, and in the modern orthography these are written as ⟨c⟩ and ⟨j⟩.
Orthography
| Letter | IPA | Letter | IPA | Letter | IPA |
| a | j | o | |||
| b | k | p | |||
| c | kʷ | t | |||
| d | m | u | |||
| e | mb | v | |||
| g | n | w | |||
| gw | nd | y | |||
| i | ngg | - | - |