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{{Short description|Kainantu-Goroka language of Papua New Guinea}}
{{Infobox language
|name=Fore
|states=[[Papua New Guinea]]
|region=[[Goroka District]], [[Eastern Highlands Province]]
|ethnicity=[[Fore people|Fore]]
|speakers={{sigfig|30,200|2}} 
|date= 2000
|ref=e25
|familycolor=Papuan
|fam1=[[Trans–New Guinea languages|Trans–New Guinea]]
|fam2=[[Kainantu–Goroka languages|Kainantu–Goroka]]
|fam3=[[Goroka languages|Goroka]]
|dia1=Pamusa
|iso3=for
|glotto=fore1270
|glottorefname=Fore
}}

'''Fore''' or '''Foré''' {{IPAc-en|ˈ|f|ɔːr|eɪ}} {{respell|FOR|ay}}<ref>Laurie Bauer, 2007, ''The Linguistics Student’s Handbook'', Edinburgh</ref> is a [[Kainantu-Goroka languages|Kainantu-Goroka language]] spoken in the [[Goroka District]] of [[Eastern Highlands Province]], [[Papua New Guinea]].

== Phonology ==
The consonants of Fore are as follows:<ref>Graham Scott. 1977. The Fore Language of Papua New Guinea. (Doctoral dissertation, Australian National University; xvi+244pp.)</ref>
{| class="wikitable"
! colspan="2" |
![[Bilabial consonant|Bilabial]]
![[Dental consonant|Dental]]/[[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]
![[Glottalic consonant|Glottal]]
|-
! rowspan="2" |[[Plosive|Stops]]
!Plain
|[[Voiceless bilabial plosive|p]]
|[[Voiceless dental and alveolar plosives|t̪]]
|
|[[Voiceless velar plosive|k]]
|[[Glottal stop|ʔ]]
|-
![[Prenasalized consonant|Prenasalized]]
|mp
|n̪t̪~nt
|
|ŋk
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Nasal consonant|Nasals]]
|[[Voiced bilabial nasal|m]]
|[[Dental nasal|n̪~n]]
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Fricative]]
|
|[[Voiceless alveolar fricative|s̪~s]]
|
|
|
|-
! colspan="2" |[[Approximant|Approximants]]
|[[Voiced labio-velar approximant|w]]
|
|[[Voiced palatal approximant|j]]
|
|
|}
All the dental consonants can vary to alveolar, except /t̪/ which is always dental. /p/, /t̪/, and /k/ are pronounced as /b/, /ɾ/, and /g/ between vowels. Velar consonants are labialized after rounded vowels. /j/ is often pronounced as a fricative /ʝ/.

Fore has six vowels:
{| class="wikitable"
!
![[Front vowel|Front]]
![[Central vowel|Central]]
![[Back vowel|Back]]
|-
![[Close vowel|Close]]
|[[Close front unrounded vowel|i]]
|
|[[Close back rounded vowel|u]]
|-
![[Mid vowel|Mid]]
|[[Close-mid front unrounded vowel|eː]]
|[[Open-mid back unrounded vowel|ʌ]]
|[[Close-mid back rounded vowel|oː]]
|-
![[Open vowel|Open]]
|
|[[Open front unrounded vowel|aː]]
|
|}
It also has four diphthongs: ae, ao, ai, and au.

Fore has a [[Pitch-accent language|pitch accent]] system. Each syllable is either accented or unaccented. Multiple accented syllables can occur in the same word, but they cannot be adjacent to each other.

== External links ==
* [[Paradisec]] includes collections with [http://catalog.paradisec.org.au/collections/search?language_code=for Fore language materials]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

{{Kainantu–Goroka languages}}
[[Category:Kainantu–Goroka languages]]
[[Category:Languages of Eastern Highlands Province]]


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