Kamano (Kamano-Kafe) is aPapuan language spoken inEastern Highlands Province,Papua New Guinea.

The terms 'Kamano' and 'Kamano-Kafe' are both used to refer to the language primarily spoken inHenganofi District, although within the linguistics literature Kamano refers to some varieties within the Kamano-Yagaria group, a dialect chain ofEastern Highlands Province^[2]

• Consonant sounds /p t k m n z/ can have preglottalized sounds [ˀp ˀt ˀk ˀm ˀn ˀz] occurring word-medially.
• The phoneme /f/ can be in free fluctuation with a voiceless bilabial fricative [ɸ].

• /e/ can occur as [ɛ] word-initially or word-medially.
• /a/ can occur word initially as [ʌ].^[3]

Kamano Kafe exhibits a unique form of theclause chaining system often described in Papuan languages. Clause chaining in Papuan languages typically involves one or more medial verbs with limited morphological possibilities being under the scope of a more fully inflected final verb. The medial verbs in these clause chains typically use aswitch reference system and various degrees of agreement with final verbs. The Kamano system, unlike other clause chaining systems in New Guinea, has requisite person and number agreement with the subjects of higher clauses.^[4] A typical example is given below.

• Kainantu–Goroka languages
• Languages of Eastern Highlands Province

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