Central Asmat is aPapuan language ofWest New Guinea, spoken by theAsmat people.

Central Asmat has a number of dialects, which are:^[2]

• Keenok
• Sokoni
• Keenakap
• Kawenak (subdialects: Simai, Kainak, Mismam, Mecemup)

Yaosakor Asmat, assigned its own ISO code, is a variety of Central Asmat, not a distinct language.

• /p/ can be heard as a fricative[ɸ] when in intervocalic positions, as[pʷ] in the speech of older speakers when preceding /e/.
• /tʃ/ can be heard as a palatalized[tʲ] when in word-final positions following /i/.
• /k/ can be heard as a fricative[x] when following a vowel and preceding a consonant.
• /s/ can be heard as fricatives[θ] or[ʃ] among some older speakers.
• /r/ can be heard as a flap[ɾ] in word-medial and word-final positions.
• /ʝ/ can be heard as[dʒ] or[j] in word-initial positions.
• Nasals /m, n/ may fluctuate to voiced stops [b,d] in word-initial positions, and as prenasal stops [ᵐb,ⁿd] when in syllable-initial positions.^[3]

• Asmat-Kamoro languages
• Languages of Western New Guinea

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