Casuarina Coast Asmat language

Casuarina Coast Asmat
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Around Casuarina Coast; From Fayit District, Pantai Kasuari District, Safan District in Asmat Regency to Minyamur District in Mappi Regency, South Papua [1]
Ethnicity	Asmat people (Kaweinag)
Native speakers	(9,000 cited 1991) [2]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Asmat–Kamoro Asmat Casuarina Coast Asmat
Language codes
ISO 639-3	asc
Glottolog	casu1237

Casuarina Coast Asmat is a Papuan language spoken along the Casuarina Coast of South Papua (in the region around the mouth of the Pulau River) by the Asmat people. It is the most divergent of the Asmat languages.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Plosive	p	t		k
Fricative	f	s
Nasal	m	n
Rhotic		r
Approximant	w		j

Vowels

	Front		Central	Back
High	i	y		u
Mid	e	ø		o
Low			a

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References

1. "Orang Asmat Pantai Kasuari di Papua". e-MISI (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2023-10-22.
2. Casuarina Coast Asmat at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
3. Voorhoeve, C. L. (1980). The Asmat Languages of Irian Jaya. Australian National University. pp. 40–41.