Rao yaren Ramu ne na yammacin lardin Madang, Papua New Guinea . A cikin tsofaffin wallafe-wallafen an kira shi Annaberg .

Rao
Rao Breri
Asali a Papua New Guinea
Yanki western Madang Province
'Yan asalin magana
(6,000 cited 1992)[1]
Ramu
kasafin harshe
  • Li’o
  • Ndramini’o
Lamban rijistar harshe
ISO 639-3 rao
Glottolog raoo1244[2]

Sautin Rao

gyara sashe
Consonants [3]
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
M p b t d tʃ dʒ k g ʔ
Prenasalized ᵐb ⁿd ᵑg
Mai sassautawa f v s z ( h )
Nasal m n ŋ
Kusanci w r j
  • /w/ is often heard as [β] word-initially and intervocalically.
  • /f/ has only been found word-initially.
  • /h/ is very rare and may be an allophone of /g/.
  • /r/ can also be realised as [l].
Wasula [3]
Gaba Tsakiya Baya
Babban i ɨ u
Tsakar e ə o
Ƙananan a

Bugu da ƙari, an lura da diphthong masu zuwa: /ia/, /ai/, /ea/.

Damuwa tana faɗuwa a farkon harafi tare da / ʔ/ a matsayin coda. In ba haka ba, an kayyade damuwa akan silar farko. [3]

Manazarta

gyara sashe
  1. Samfuri:Ethnologue18
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Rao". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Stanhope, John M. (2004). Rao Organised Phonology Data. SIL International.