Kakabai language

Kakabai
Igora
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Milne Bay Province,tip of Cape Vogel
Native speakers	900 (2003)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic Papuan Tip Nuclear Papuan Tip North Papuan Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux Kakabai–Dawawa Kakabai
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kqf
Glottolog	kaka1267

Kakabaiis anAustronesianlanguage spoken inMilne Bay ProvinceofPapua New Guinea.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial		Alveolar	Velar
		plain	labial		plain	labial
Plosive	Voiceless	p	pʷ⟨pw⟩	t	k	kʷ⟨kw⟩
	Voiced	b	bʷ⟨bw⟩	d	g	gʷ⟨gw⟩
Fricative		fv		s	ɣ⟨ḡ⟩
Nasal		m	mʷ⟨mw⟩	n
Approximant				l	j⟨y⟩	w

• The labialized consonants /pʷ bʷ mʷ kʷ gʷ/ only appear before /a/.
• /l/ varies dialectally between [ɺ~ɾ~l].
• /ɣ/ is realized as [ʝ~h] before front vowels.
• /m/ can appear syllabically.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

Stress is usually found on the penultimate syllable.

External links

• Alphabet and pronunciation