Wano language

Wano
Wano
Region	Highlands of Irian Jaya
Native speakers	1,000 (2011)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea West Trans–New Guinea Irian Highlands ? Dani languages Wano; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wno
Glottolog	wano1243
ELP	Wano

Wano is a Papuan language of the Indonesian New Guinea Highlands.

Phonology

**Consonant phonemes**^[2]
	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p b	t d		k	ʔ
Fricative	β
Approximant			j	w

As well as the monophthongs described above, Wano also has seven diphthongs: /i̯a/, /ɛi̯/, /ai̯/, /au̯/, /ɔi̯/, /ɔu̯/, and /ui̯/. ^[2]

The voiced plosives /b/ and /d/ are imploded word-initially and intervocalically. ^[2]
When a nasal occurs before /p/, /p/ becomes a prenasalized voiced plosive [ᵐb]. Similarly, when a nasal occurs before /t/ or /ɡ/, they become, respectively, [ⁿd] and [ᵑɡ].^[2]
/p/, /k/, /ɡ/, and /ɡ/'s allophone, [ᵑɡ] become labialized before /w/, with /ɡ/ becoming [ɣʷ]. ^[2]
The sequences /tj/ and /dj/ become the palatal fricatives /ç ʝ/. ^[2]

^ Wano at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Willem Burung, "The Phonology of Wano, SIL International, 2007

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