| Also Known As: Nakonai
Description:
The Nakanai language is spoken by the Nakanai tribe in West New Britain, a province of Papua New Guinea. It is an Austronesian language, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup.
The name Nakanai is natively pronounced Lakalai, as the alveolar nasal [n] has disappeared from the phonemic inventory of the language and has been replaced by [l].
Nakanai syllables may be of the shape V or CV, with no codas or consonant clusters to be found anywhere in the language...... full article at Wikipedia |
