Sentani or Buyaka is a Papuan language of Papua. It is spoken in about 30 scattered villages around Lake Sentani. Dialects are East, West, and Central (Ethnologue).

Phonology

Consonants

Consonants marked with a tilde are free variants. Because of the distance between and in the chart, is marked in parentheses, being the less common (but still free) variant.

Vowels

Central Sentani

Central Sentani phonology from Foley (2018):

Grammar

Pronouns

There are four series of pronouns. The first involves stressed pronoun forms, and "is... composed with the emphatic particle jɛ". The second involves subject, postposition, and possessive usages their vowels are allowed to be elided. The third are stressed or substantive possessives, and sometimes reflexives. The fourth involves "proclitic possessive[s]", which may have their vowels elided; they are not full affixes.

Citations

References

External links

• Written materials for Sentani are available through Kaipuleohone