Biritai (Biri) is a

Lakes Plain language The Lakes Plain languages are a family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Lakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea. They are notable for being heavily tonal and for their lack of nasal consonants. Classification The Lakes Plain languages were tenta ...

of Papua,

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. It is named after ''Biri'' village in East Central Mambermano District, Mamberamo Raya Regency.

Phonology

The following inventory is taken from Donohue (2017), with a very small consonant inventory typical of the Lakes Plain languages.

Consonants

In an earlier paper co-authored by Donohue, the approximants /j w/ are also included as phonemes. The authors note that Biritai is typologically unusual for missing series of velar, nasal and liquid consonants.

Vowels

References

Lakes Plain languages Languages of western New Guinea {{papuan-lang-stub