Manat language

Manat, or Paynamar, is a divergent Madang language spoken in the Adelbert Range of Papua New Guinea.

Manat
Paynamar
Native toPapua New Guinea
RegionMadang Province
Native speakers
(150 cited 1975)[1]
Trans–New Guinea
Language codes
ISO 639-3pmr
Glottologpayn1244[2]

Phonology

Vowels
[3]
Front Central Back
Close i ɨ u
Mid e
Open a

References
  1. Manat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Manat". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Daniels, Don Roger (June 2015). "A Reconstruction of Proto-Sogeram". Alexandria Digital Research Library: 82–83.


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