Tarama language

The Tarama language is a Japonic language spoken on the islands of Tarama and nearly depopulated Minna, two of the Miyako Islands of Japan.

It is closely related to Miyakoan, but intelligibility is low.

Tarama does have voiced stops: The 'l' is a retroflex lateral flap, also found in the Irabu language (Jarosz p. 43).

Sonorants can end syllables and words, as in kan 'crab', mim 'ear', and tul 'bird'.

This structure has been analyzed as a syllable, but initial geminate consonants, long vowels and diphthongs are all bimoraic, and codas are moraic as well, so that e.g. ssam is three moras ([s̩sam̩].