Orokaiva is aPapuan language spoken in the "tail" ofPapua New Guinea.

Orokaiva is spoken in 200 villages aroundPopondetta inOro Province.

Hunjara is spoken inKokoda Rural LLG ofOro Province.

Aeka is spoken inTamata Rural LLG ofOro Province.^[1]

• Voiced stops /b, d, ɡ/ may fluctuate to prenasalized stop sounds [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᵑɡ] in word-initial position. The prenasalized stop sounds are also heard among the voiced stops when in post-nasal sequences.

• /b/ can be heard as [β] in intervocalic positions, and may also be heard as a voiced bilabial rounded fricative [β̹] when before /a/ in intervocalic positions..
• /d/ may occur as flap sounds [ɾ, ɽ, ɺ] in free fluctuation in word-medial positions, except when after a nasal sound.
• /d͡z/ may have fluctuating allophones of [d͡ʒ, ʒ] occurring in syllable-initial positions.
• Word-final nasal sounds /-n, -ŋ/ when after a vowel, may result in vowel nasalization [Ṽ].

• Sounds [i, u, a] can have allophones [ɪ, ʊ, ʌ].

• Larsen, Robert E. & Marlys Larsen. 1977. Orokaiva phonology and orthography. In Richard Loving (ed.), Phonologies of five P.N.G. languages, 5-28. Ukarumpa: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

• Humotepain-Ari te Giu, Prayers and Offices in Orokaiva (1953) Digitized by Richard Mammana
• "Orokaiva Phonology and Orthography"(PDF). Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2018-07-10. Retrieved2018-07-10.{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal= (help)

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