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Lamogai
Native to	Papua New Guinea
Region	parts of West New Britain Province
Native speakers	(3,600 cited 1980)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Oceanic Western Oceanic North New Guinea Ngero–Vitiaz Southwest New Britain Bibling Lamogai
Language codes
ISO 639-3	lmg
Glottolog	lamo1244

Lamogai is an Austronesian language spoken by about 3600 individuals in parts of West New Britain Province, Papua New Guinea on the island of New Britain.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Velar
Plosive	p b	t d	k g
Fricative		s
Nasal	m	n	ŋ
Approximant		r, l

• The nasal consonants /m n ŋ/ can appear as the syllabic nasals [m̩ n̩ ŋ̍] word-initially.
• The nasal consonants /m n ŋ/ appear as prenasalised voiced stops [mb nd ŋg] before /r/.
• The voiced stops /b d g/ frequently manifest as fricatives [β ɹ ɣ] after vowels.
• /r/ is voiceless [r̥] word-finally.
• Sonorants /r l m n ŋ/ are voiceless [r̥ l̥ m̥ n̥ ŋ̊] in clusters after voiceless stops.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

• /i/ sporadically manifests as [ɯ] before /r/.

Stress tends to occur in penultimate position.