Parawen language

Parawen
Para
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	Madang Province
Ethnicity	760 (2000 census) [1]
Native speakers	(430 cited 1981) [1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea? Madang Croisilles Numugen Parawen
Language codes
ISO 639-3	prw
Glottolog	para1307

Parawen is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Parawen has a small phonemic inventory of nine consonants and three vowels. ^[2]

Parawen consonant inventory

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Stop	voiceless		/t/		/k/
	voiced	/b/	/d/		/g/
Nasal		/m/	/n/
Glide		/w/		/j/

An epenthetic vowel, generally /ɑ/ but /u/ if the preceding vowel is also /u/, which is usually inserted following a word-final consonant. /b/ is devoiced to [p] word-finally, even when an epenthetic vowel follows. /t/ is realised as [s] adjacent to /i/, and /d/ is [r] post-vocalically.

Parawen vowels

	Front	Back
High	/i/	/u/
Low		/ɑ/

References

1. Parawen at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Pick, Andrew (2020). A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon (PDF) (PhD dissertation). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. p. 158. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-06-04. Retrieved 2023-03-01.