| Timbe | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Huon Peninsula,Morobe Province |
Native speakers | (11,000 cited 1991)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tim |
| Glottolog | timb1251 |
Timbe is aPapuan language spoken inMorobe Province,Papua New Guinea. Women and older men are monolingual.
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | k | ||
| voiced | b | d̪ | ɡ | |||
| prenasal | ᵐb | ⁿ̪d̪ | ᵑɡ | |||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | ŋ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Low | a | ɔ |