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Yareba
Yareba
Region	Papua New Guinea: Ijitivari and Popondetta districts
Native speakers	1,200 (2000)
Language family	Trans–New Guinea Yareban Nawaru–Yareba Yareba; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	yrb
Glottolog	yare1248

Yareba, or Middle Musa, is a language of Papua New Guinea.

Phonology

Yareba has 15 phonemic consonants and 5 monophthongs.^[2]

/t/ and /k/ are aspirated.^[2]
/dz/ can be pronounced [dz], [dʒ], and [z].^[2]
/ɾ/ can be pronounced [ɾ] or [ɺ].^[2]
/w/ is [β] next to /i/ and /e/, [w] between [a] and [ai], and [v] elsewhere.^[2]

Yareba allows for the diphthongs ai, au, oi, ou, ei, ui, ua, ue.^[3]^: 87

Paradisec has the Tom Dutton collection (TD1) that includes Yareba language materials.

^ Yareba at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Weimer, Harry; Weimer, Natalia (1972). "Yareba phonemes". Te Reo. 15: 52–57.
^ Pawley, Andrew; Hammarström, Harald (2018). "The Trans New Guinea family". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 21–196. hdl:20.500.12657/23719. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.