Gimi language
Gimi (Labogai) is a Papuan language spoken in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Phonology

Gimi has 5 vowels and 12 consonants. It has voiceless and voiced glottal consonants where related languages have  and . The voiceless glottal is simply a glottal stop . The voiced consonant behaves phonologically like a glottal stop, but does not have full closure. Phonetically it is a creaky-voiced glottal approximant . Vowels

Consonants

Allophony

 occurs word initially only in loanwords. can surface as either  or  in free variation. becomes  before . and  tend to fluctuate with one another word initially. Syllables

The syllable structure is (C)V(G), where G is either  or . Tone

The final vowel of a word takes either a level or falling tone. The falling tone is written with an acute accent. Orthography

Gimi uses the Latin script. References

Kainantu–Goroka languages
Tonal languages
Languages of Eastern Highlands Province