Golin language

Golin (also Gollum, Gumine) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea.

Vowels
Diphthongs that occur are. The consonants can also be syllabic.

Consonant
are treated as single consonants by Bunn & Bunn (1970), but as combinations of +,  +  by Evans et al. (2005).

Two consonants appear to allow free variation in their realisations: varies with, and  with.

assimilates to before  and.

Tone
Golin is a tonal language, distinguishing high ([˧˥]), mid ([˨˧]), and low ([˨˩]) tone. The high tone is marked by an acute accent and the low tone by a grave accent, while the mid tone is left unmarked. Examples:
 * High: mú [mu˧˥] 'type of snake'; wí [wi˧˥] 'scream (man)'
 * Mid: mu [mu˨˧] 'type of bamboo'; wi [wi˨˧] 'coming from the same ethnic group'
 * Low: mù [mu˨˩] 'sound of river'; wì [wi˨˩] 'cut (verb)'

Pronouns
Golin is notable for having a small pronominal paradigm. There are two basic pronouns:
 * ná first person
 * í second person

There is no number distinction and no true third person pronoun. In fact, third person pronouns in Golin are in fact compounds derived from ‘man’ plus inín ‘self’:
 * yalíni ‘he’ < yál ‘man’ + inín ‘self’
 * abalíni ‘she’ < abál ‘woman’ + inín ‘self’