Konua, also known as Rapoisi, is a language spoken on

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Phonology

Consonants

*/p/ is often pronounced as word initially */t̪/ does not occur before /i/ */β ɾ ɣ/ have the

allophones In phonology, an allophone (; from the Greek , , 'other' and , , 'voice, sound') is one of multiple possible spoken soundsor '' phones''used to pronounce a single phoneme in a particular language. For example, in English, the voiceless plosi ...

~ respectively. The nasal allophones occur utterance-initial.

Vowels

Orthography

Rapoisi is written in the

Latin alphabet The Latin alphabet, also known as the Roman alphabet, is the collection of letters originally used by the Ancient Rome, ancient Romans to write the Latin language. Largely unaltered except several letters splitting—i.e. from , and from � ...

, with 14 letters.

Grammar

Pronouns

Vocabulary

The table below is a sample of words in Rapoisi:

References

Languages of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville North Bougainville languages {{papuan-lang-stub