Parawen language explained

Parawen
Nativename:	Para
States:	Papua New Guinea
Region:	Madang Province
Ethnicity:	760 (2000 census)
Speakers:	430
Date:	1981
Ref:	e25
Familycolor:	Papuan
Fam1:	Trans–New Guinea?
Fam2:	Madang
Fam3:	Croisilles
Fam4:	Numugen
Iso3:	prw
Glotto:	para1307
Glottorefname:	Parawen

Parawen is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Parawen has a small phonemic inventory of nine consonants and three vowels.^[1]

!Labial!Alveolar!Palatal!Velar
Stop	voiceless		/t/		/k/
Stop	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/

Notes and References

Pick . Andrew . A reconstruction of Proto-Northern Adelbert phonology and lexicon . 2020 . PhD dissertation . University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa . 158.