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Binandere language

Binandere is a Papuan language spoken in the "tail" of Papua New Guinea.

Binandere has 11 consonants: voiced and voiceless bilabials, alveolars, and velars; voiced labial and alveolar nasals; the flap /ɾ/; the voiced bilabial fricative /β/ and the palatal approximant /j/.

Binandere also has the 5 common vowels /ɑ e i o u/ and their five nasal counterparts.

These vowels can be combined to form up to 11 possible diphthongs:

Below are some reflexes of proto-Trans-New Guinea proposed by Pawley (2012):

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