Gebe language

Gebe
Gebe
Minyaifuin
Native to	Indonesia
Native speakers	(2,700 cited 2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Malayo-Polynesian Eastern Malayo-Polynesian South Halmahera–West New Guinea Raja Ampat–South Halmahera South Halmahera Gebe; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	gei
Glottolog	gebe1237
ELP	Gebe

Gebe, or Minyaifuin, is an Austronesian language of eastern Indonesia, spoken on the Gebe islands between Halmahera and Waigeo.

Phonology

Consonants
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	(ʔ)
Plosive/ Affricate	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative		f	s			h
Rhotic			r
Lateral			l
Approximant		w		j

[ʔ] only appears when within the sequence of vowels in syllable-final positions.^[2]

Voiced sounds /b, d/ may also be articulated by speakers as implosive sounds [ɓ, ɗ] when in word-initial or intervocalic positions.^[3]

^ Gebe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Burhanuddin, Sumarlam dan Mahsun (2017). Kedudukan bahasa Gebe di Halmahera Tengah Maluku Utara: Studi pendahuluan dari aspek linguistik historis. Arkhais: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia. 8 (1). pp. 1–7.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
^ Bax, (2019)

Bax, Marton Miklós Willem (2019). A sketch grammar of Gebe: a language of North Maluku. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.
Burhanuddin, Burhanuddin; Sumarlam, Sumarlam; Mahsun, Mahsun (2017). "Kedudukan bahasa Gebe di Halmahera Tengah Maluku Utara: Studi pendahuluan dari aspek linguistik historis". Arkhais: Jurnal Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia. 8 (1): 1–7. doi:10.21009/ARKHAIS.081.01.