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Biritai language

Biritai (Biri) is a Lakes Plain language of Papua, Indonesia. It is named after Biri village in East Central Mambermano District, Mamberamo Raya Regency.

The following inventory is taken from Donohue (2017), with a very small consonant inventory typical of the Lakes Plain languages.

In an earlier paper co-authored by Donohue, the approximants /j w/ are also included as phonemes. The authors note that Biritai is typologically unusual for missing series of velar, nasal and liquid consonants.

Biritai is tonal.[citation needed]

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