Editing Abau language (section)

==Phonology==

Abau has the simplest phonemic inventory in the Sepik language family.<ref name=":0"/>

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|+[[Vowel]]s<ref name=":0">Steven Moran and Daniel McCloy and Richard Wright. 2019. Abau sound inventory (PH). In: Moran, Steven & McCloy, Daniel (eds.) PHOIBLE 2.0. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. (Available online at http://phoible.org/inventories/view/1160, Accessed on 2019-04-23.)</ref>
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! [[Front vowel|Front]]
! [[Back vowel|Back]]
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! [[Close vowel|Close]]
| {{IPAlink|i}}
| {{IPAlink|u}}
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! [[Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]
| {{IPAlink|e}}
| {{IPAlink|o}}
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! [[Open vowel|Open]]
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| {{IPAlink|ɑ}}
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! [[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
! [[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
! [[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
! [[Velar consonant|Velar]]
! [[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]
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! [[Nasal stop|Nasal]]
| {{IPAlink|m}}
| {{IPAlink|n}}
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! [[Plosive]]
| {{IPAlink|p}}
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| {{IPAlink|k}}
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! [[Fricative]]
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| {{IPAlink|s}}
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| {{IPAlink|h}}
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! [[Flap consonant|Flap]]
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| {{IPAlink|ɾ}}
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! [[Semivowel]]
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| {{IPAlink|j}}
| {{IPAlink|w}}
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