Kemberano language

Kemberano is a Papuan language of the Bird's Head Peninsula of West Papua, Indonesia.

[2] Prenasal sounds /ᵐb, ⁿ̪d̪, ᵑɡ/ are mostly heard as prenasal in word-initial position and as voiced stops [b, d̪, ɡ] elsewhere.

The five vowels /i, e, a, o, u/ can be heard as [ɪ, ɛ, ɑ, ɔ, ʊ] in unstressed positions.

All of them may also be heard as a mid central [ə] in free variation in unstressed positions.

Kemberano nouns are required to have the following concord suffixes:[2] Examples (from Berry and Berry 1987: 86): pogipigenat-ione-Mpogi enat-ipig one-M‘one pig’urokostoneenat-oone-Furoko enat-ostone one-F‘one stone’ This article about Trans–New Guinea languages is a stub.