Sentani language

Sentani
Sentani
Native to	Papua, Indonesia
Region	Lake Sentani, Papua
Native speakers	(30,000 cited 1996)
Language family	Northwest Papuan? Demta–Sentani Sentani proper Sentani; ; ;
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	set
Glottolog	nucl1632

Sentani or Buyaka is a Papuan language of Papua. It is spoken in about 30 scattered villages around Lake Sentani. Dialects are East, West, and Central (Ethnologue).

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	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	b	d		k
Fricative	f~ɸ	s			h
Approximant	w	l	j

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open(-mid)	ɛ	a

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Plosive	p			k
Fricative	f				h
Approximant	w	l	j
Rhotic		r

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open	æ	a

Sentani language

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Central Sentani

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