• Alekano, or Gahuku (Gahuku-Gama), is a Papuan language spoken in Gahuku Rural LLG of Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. There are about 25,000...
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    Voiced velar fricative (category Articles containing Alekano-language text)
    fricative is a type of consonantal sound that is used in various spoken languages. It is not found in most varieties of Modern English but existed in Old...
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  • Voiceless postalveolar fricative (category Articles containing Alekano-language text)
    postalveolar fricative is a type of consonantal sound used in some spoken languages. The International Phonetic Association uses the term voiceless postalveolar...
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  • Voiceless dental fricative (category Articles containing Alekano-language text)
    some spoken languages. It is familiar to English speakers as the 'th' in think. Though rather rare as a phoneme among the world's languages, it is encountered...
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    Near-open front unrounded vowel (category Articles containing Alekano-language text)
    (eds.), The Turkic languages, Routledge, pp. 283–300 Campbell, George L. (1995), "Persian", Concise compendium of the world's languages (1st publ. ed.),...
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    Voiced bilabial fricative (category Articles containing Alekano-language text)
    bilabial fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents this...
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  • Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives (category Articles containing Alekano-language text)
    (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in almost all spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiceless...
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  • Voiced dental and alveolar plosives (category Articles containing Alekano-language text)
    plosives (or stops) are types of consonantal sounds used in many spoken languages. The symbol in the International Phonetic Alphabet that represents voiced...
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    their TNG identity to be established. The languages are: Goroka family Daulo Siane, Yaweyuha Gahuku: Alekano (Gahuku), Asaro River: Dano (Upper Asaro)...
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  • Province of Papua New Guinea. It contains the city of Goroka. The Alekano language is spoken there. 6°04′56″S 145°23′25″E / 6.082319°S 145.390300°E...
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    government (LLG) of Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. The Alekano language, also known as Gahuku, is spoken in the LLG. 01. Upper Yaukave 02....
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  • Gāh, a period of time in Zoroastrianism the ISO 639-3 code for the Alekano language, also known as Gahuku, spoken in the Eastern Highlands Province of...
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    Trans–New Guinea (TNG) is an extensive family of Papuan languages spoken on the island of New Guinea and neighboring islands, a region corresponding to...
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  • East-Central (Goroka) family Gende language Fore branch: Fore, Gimi Gahuku branch: Dano (Upper Asaro), Benabena, Alekano (Gahuku), Tokano (Lower Asaro) Siane...
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    The Ok languages are a family of about a dozen related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in a contiguous area of eastern Irian Jaya and western Papua New...
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    The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia...
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    The Madang or Madang–Adelbert Range languages are a language family of Papua New Guinea. They were classified as a branch of Trans–New Guinea by Stephen...
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    The Alor–Pantar languages are a family of clearly related Papuan languages spoken on islands of the Alor archipelago near Timor in southern Indonesia....
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  • Momuna (Momina), also known as Somahai (Somage, Sumohai), is a Papuan language spoken in Yahukimo Regency, Highland Papua and Asmat Regency, South Papua...
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  • The Dani or Baliem Valley languages are a family of clearly related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken by the Dani and related peoples in the Baliem Valley...
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    The Greater Binanderean or Guhu-Oro languages are a language family spoken along the northeast coast of the Papuan Peninsula – the "Bird's Tail" of New...
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    The Kayagar languages are a small family of four closely related Trans–New Guinea languages spoken around the Cook River in Province of South Papua, Indonesia:...
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  • The Koiarian languages /kɔɪˈɑːriən/ Koiari are a small family of Trans–New Guinea languages spoken in the "Bird's Tail" (southeastern peninsula) of New...
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  • Roundedness (category Articles containing Chinese-language text)
    Vietnamese distinguishes rounded and unrounded back vowels of the same height. Alekano has only unrounded vowels. In the International Phonetic Alphabet vowel...
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    The Turama–Kikorian languages are a family identified by Arthur Capell (1962) and part of the Trans–New Guinea languages (TNG) family in the classifications...
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  • a recently discovered Papuan language cluster spoken in Papua Province, Indonesia, to the south of the Somahai languages. All that is known of them is...
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  • (TAP) languages are a family of languages spoken in Timor, Kisar, and the Alor archipelago in Southern Indonesia. It is the westernmost Papuan language family...
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    River languages are a family of Papuan languages. The East Strickland languages actually form a language continuum. Shaw (1986) recognizes six languages, which...
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    The Anim or Fly River languages are a language family in south-central New Guinea established by Usher & Suter (2015). The names of the family derive from...
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    Engan, or more precisely Enga – Southern Highland, languages are a small family of Papuan languages of the highlands of Papua New Guinea. The two branches...
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