Bim or Bimin is one of the Ok languages of New Guinea. It is spoken in Sandaun and Western Provinces in the region between the Murray and Strickland Rivers. The language is related to Faiwol but there is also "much intermarriage and cultural exchange with Oksapmin".
Phonology Consonants +Consonants Labial Alveolar Velar Plosive Voiceless Voiced Nasal Lateral Fricative
can be pronounced ~~~. is in syllable onsets and in syllable codas. Intervocalic is "almost like" or . is syllable initially and intervocalically and syllable finally. is ~ and never occurs word initially.
Vowels +Vowels Front Central Back High Mid Low
Weber (2003) uses instead of .
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