Yil language

Yil is a Torricelli language of Papua New Guinea spoken in twelve villages in Sundaun province.

Phonology

This section follows Martens and Tuominen. Yil has a small inventory of ten consonants:

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Velar
Stop	p	t	k
Fricative		s	ɣ
Nasal	m	n	ŋ
Trill		r
Lateral		l

And seven vowels:
In addition there are the diphthongs /ai̯ au̯ ay̯ ei̯/. /i u/ have non-syllabic allophones in onset or coda position. /ɣ/ is devoiced to word-finally, e.g. /uəmaɣ/ 'hawk'.

Phonotactics

Maximum syllable structure is V . Syllables with two-consonant codas only occur word-finally. Distribution of phonemes in different syllable types is shown in the table below.
Stress usually falls on the first syllable, although it is contrastive in some verb forms, e.g. /əˈŋati/ "I bury a man" vs. /ˈəŋati/ "I hurry"