Gavak language

Gavak
Dimir
Bosiken
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province
Native speakers	3,800 (2003) [1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea? Madang Croisilles Isumrud Dimir–Malas Gavak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	dmc
Glottolog	dimi1244

Gavak, also known as Bosiken (Boskien) and Dimir, is a Papuan language of Madang Province, Papua New Guinea. ^[2] It is spoken in the Dimir River area.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative			s
Trill			r
Approximant		w	l	j

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Mid	e	o
Low		a

^[2]

References

1. Gavak at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Pick, Andrew (2020). A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2023-03-01.