rumu, language, kairi, language, redirects, here, australian, language, gayiri, language, rumu, rumuwa, kairi, papuan, language, papua, guinea, other, names, dumu, tumu, kibiri, rumukairiregionpapua, guineanative, speakers, cited, 1990, language, familypapuan,. Kairi language redirects here For the Australian language see Gayiri language Rumu Rumuwa or Kairi Kai Iri is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea Other names for it are Dumu Tumu and Kibiri RumuKairiRegionPapua New GuineaNative speakers 700 cited 1990 1 Language familyPapuan Gulf KikorianTurama KikorianRumuLanguage codesISO 639 3 a href https iso639 3 sil org code klq class extiw title iso639 3 klq klq a Glottologrumu1243Phonology editConsonants 2 Labial Alveolar DorsalPlosive p t kFricative s hNasal m nApproximant w r j r is pronounced l when word initial and before ɛ a ɔ w is b before i e ɛ s only occurs in loanwords Vowels 2 Front Central BackHigh i uMid high e e o o Mid low ɛ ɔLow aDiphthongs 2 i e ɛ a ɔ ui ia iɔe ei ea eɔɛ ɛi ɛa ɛua ai ae aɔ auo oi oe oaɔ ɔi ɔɛ ɔa ɔuu ui uɔ ei has merged to i for many speakers oi has shifted to ui for many speakers Additionally Rumu is tonal distinguishing four tones falling a rising a peaking a and level a 2 References edit John Newman and Robert G Petterson 1990 The Tones of Kairi Oceanic Linguistics 29 1 p 75 n 2 a b c d Petterson Robert 1992 Rumu Organised Phonology Data SIL International This Papuan languages related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rumu language amp oldid 1197547962, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
