Baining
WALS coordinates: 4° 35′ S, 152° E
spoken in Papua New Guinea
Alternative Names
| Ethnologue: | |
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| Ruhlen: |
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| Routledge: | |
| Other: | |
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Features
| Feature | Value | References |
|---|---|---|
| Phonology | ||
| Consonant Inventories | Small | |
| Vowel Quality Inventories | Average (5-6) | |
| Consonant-Vowel Ratio | Average | |
| Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives | No voicing constrast | |
| Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems | Other | |
| Uvular Consonants | None | |
| Glottalized Consonants | No glottalized consonants | |
| Lateral Consonants | /l/, no obstruent laterals | |
| Front Rounded Vowels | None | |
| Syllable Structure | Moderately complex | |
| Tone | No tones | |
| Absence of Common Consonants | All present | |
| Presence of Uncommon Consonants | None | |
| Verbal Categories | ||
| Perfective/Imperfective Aspect | Grammatical marking | |
| The Past Tense | No past tense | |
| The Future Tense | Inflectional future exists | |
| The Perfect | Other perfect | |
