Adonara language
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Central Malayo-Polynesian language
| Adonara | |
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| Adonara | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Adonara, eastern Solor |
Native speakers | 98,000 (2008)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | adr |
| Glottolog | adon1237 |
Adonara is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of the island of Adonara and the eastern end of the neighbouring island of Solor, both situated east of Flores in Indonesia.
Phonology
[edit]| Front | Central | Back | |
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| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | k | (ʔ) | |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||
The glottal stop [ʔ] mainly occurs in word-initial positions before vowels, and in word-medial positions before vowels.[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Adonara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Michels, Marc (2017). Western Lamaholot: A cross-dialectal grammar sketch. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.
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