Wano is aBaliem Valley language spoken by the Wano people inPuncak andPuncak Jaya regencies of the Indonesian province ofCentral Papua.

As well as themonophthongs described above, Wano also has sevendiphthongs:/i̯a/,/ɛi̯/,/ai̯/,/au̯/,/ɔi̯/,/ɔu̯/,and/ui̯/.^[2]

• The voicedplosives /b/ and /d/ areimploded to/ɓ/ and/ɗ/ when word-initially andintervocalically.^[2]
• When a nasal occurs before /p/, /p/ becomes aprenasalized voiced plosive [ᵐb]. Similarly, when a nasal occurs before /t/ or /k/, they become, respectively, [ⁿd] and [ᵑɡ].^[2]
• /t/ and/k/ intervocalically become/ɾ/ and/ɣ/.^[3]
• /p/, /k/, /ɡ/, and /ɡ/'sallophone, [ᵑɡ] become labialized before /w/, with /ɡ/ becoming [ɣʷ].^[2]
• Thesequences /tj/ and /dj/ become the palatal fricatives /çʝ/.^[2] However, this analysis more signifies the correspondingDutch digraphs, since these have no morphological significance, and in the modern orthography these are written as ⟨c⟩ and ⟨j⟩.

Here is the orthography used by Willem Burung on his works. These are not necessarily separate letters.

Inalienable nouns could be pluralized by suffixing-i (after consonants) or-vi (after vowels), while alienable nouns do not (similar toIndonesian, where pluralization is optional).^{[4][page needed]} The inalienable plurals can be postposed with numerals (aburi kena "her two children").

• Duvle-Wano Pidgin

• Burung, Willem (2016).A grammar of Wano (PhD thesis). University of Oxford.

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