Terei or Buin, also known as ''Telei, Rugara'', is the most populous
Papuan language spoken to the east of
New Guinea. There are about 27,000 speakers in the
Buin District Buin may refer to:
* Buin, Chile
* Buin, Iran (disambiguation)
* Buin, Papua New Guinea on Bougainville Island
* Buin Rural LLG
Buin Rural LLG is a local-level government (LLG) of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville, Papua New Guinea.
Wards
...
of
Bougainville Province
Bougainville ( ; ; Tok Pisin: ''Bogenvil''), officially the Autonomous Region of Bougainville (Tok Pisin: ''Otonomos Region bilong Bogenvil''), is an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea. The largest island is Bougainville Island, while the r ...
,
Papua New Guinea.
Phonology
The phonology of the Buin language:
[Laycock, (2003). Pacific Linguistics.]
The /É¡/ sound does not occur word-initially and is often fricativised as
£ The phoneme /ɾ/ following an /n/ is pronounced as
and also occurs as
for an allophonic variant. When a /t/ sound occurs before an /i/, it is always pronounced as
si and when occurring before a /u/ or /a/, it may be realized as
suor
sadepending on the dialect.
References
External links
* Paradisec ha
a number of collections with materials for Terei languagetwo collections of
Arthur Cappell's materials
AC1AC2
.
Languages of the Autonomous Region of Bougainville
South Bougainville languages
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