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Lamogai is an Austronesian language spoken by about 3600 individuals in parts of 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/ appear as prenasalised voiced stops before /r/.
• The voiced stops /b d g/ frequently manifest as fricatives after vowels.
• /r/ is voiceless word-finally.
• Sonorants /r l m n ŋ/ are voiceless in clusters after voiceless stops.

• /i/ sporadically manifests as before /r/.

Stress tends to occur in penultimate position.

References

1. Lamogai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. ^ Thurston, William R. (1996). Ross, Malcolm D. (ed.). "The Bibling Languages of Northwestern New Britain". Studies in the Languages of New Britain and New Ireland 1: Austronesian Languages of the North New Guinea Cluster in Northwestern New Britain. Pacific Linguistics: Series C. 135. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University: 249–392.

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