Gimi language

Gimi (Labogai) is a Papuan language spoken in Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.

Phonology
Gimi has 5 vowels and 12 consonants. It has voiceless and voiced glottal consonants where related languages have and. The voiceless glottal is simply a glottal stop. The voiced consonant behaves phonologically like a glottal stop, but does not have full closure. Phonetically it is a creaky-voiced glottal approximant.

Allophony
occurs word initially only in loanwords.

can surface as either or  in free variation.

becomes before.

and tend to fluctuate with one another word initially.

Syllables
The syllable structure is (C)V(G), where G is either or.

Tone
The final vowel of a word takes either a level or falling tone. The falling tone is written with an acute accent.

Orthography
Gimi uses the Latin script.