Timbe is a Papuan language spoken in Morobe Province, Papua New Guinea. Women and older men are monolingual.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | k | ||
| voiced | b | d̪ | ɡ | |||
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿ̪d̪ | ᵑɡ | |||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ŋ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
- /b, d̪, ɡ/ can be lenited as [β, ɾ~r, ɣ] in intervocalic positions.
- /t̪, d̪/ are heard as [tʃ, dʒ] when following /ŋ/.[2]
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Low | a | ɔ |
References
- ^ Timbe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Foster, Margaret & Mick (1972). Timbe phonemics. SIL.
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