Sentani or Buyaka is a Papuan language of Papua. It is spoken in about 30 scattered villages around Lake Sentani. Dialects are East, West, and Central (Ethnologue).
Phonology
Consonants +LabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalNasalPlosive ~ ~ ~ ~ Fricative ~ () ~ Approximant
Consonants marked with a tilde are free variants. Because of the distance between and in the chart, is marked in parentheses, being the less common (but still free) variant.
Vowels +FrontCentralBackCloseClose-midMidOpen-midOpen
Central Sentani Central Sentani phonology from Foley (2018):
+ ConsonantsLabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalNasal Plosive Fricative Approximant Rhotic
+ VowelsFrontCentralBackCloseMidOpen
Grammar
Pronouns There are four series of pronouns. The first involves stressed pronoun forms, and "is... composed with the emphatic particle jɛ". The second involves subject, postposition, and possessive usages – their vowels are allowed to be elided. The third are stressed or substantive possessives, and sometimes reflexives. The fourth involves "proclitic possessive[s]", which may have their vowels elided; they are not full affixes. +IIIIIIIVdəjɛdadɛjdəmejɛmemɛjejɛ(e)ɛjwəjɛwawɛjwəməjɛmamajmənəjɛnanɛjnənəjɛnanɛjnə
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References
External links Written materials for Sentani are available through Kaipuleohone