Fore or Foré ( Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh) is a Kainantu-Goroka language spoken in the Goroka District of Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.
Phonology The consonants of Fore are as follows:Graham Scott. 1977. The Fore Language of Papua New Guinea. (Doctoral dissertation, Australian National University; xvi+244pp.) https://openresearch-repository.anu.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/c1e29047-94be-4757-a1d1-6679c850e3c9/content BilabialDental/AlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalStopsPlainpt̪kʔPrenasalized~Nasalsmn̪~nFricatives̪~sApproximantswj All the dental consonants can vary to alveolar, except /t̪/ which is always dental. /p/, /t̪/, and /k/ are pronounced as /b~β/, /ɾ~l/, and /g~ɣ/ between vowels, and /p~ɸ/, /t̪~t/, /k~x/ word initially/. Velar consonants are labialized after rounded vowels. /j/ is often pronounced as a fricative /ʝ/.
Fore has six vowels: FrontCentralBackCloseiuMideːʌoːOpenaː It also has four diphthongs: ae, ao, ai, and au.
Fore has a pitch accent system. Each syllable is either accented or unaccented. Multiple accented syllables can occur in the same word.
External links Paradisec includes collections with Fore language materials
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