Unusual Characteristics
Araki is one of the few languages of Vanuatu, and indeed of the world, possessing a set of linguolabial consonants.
Araki lacks a row of voiced stops, as well as prenasalised stops, both of which are prevalent in the Oceanic language group.
Araki has an unusually high number of phonemic differentiation on the alveolar point of articulation. Most marked is the existence of the trill consonant beside the flap one.
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