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| Taliabo | |
|---|---|
| Taliabu | |
| Native to | Indonesia, North Maluku |
| Region | Taliabu Island |
Native speakers | (4,900 cited 2000)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:tlv – Taliabokzd – Kadai |
| Glottolog | tali1261 |
| ELP | Kadai |
Taliabo (Taliabu) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the island of the same name in the Moluccas of Indonesia.
Dialects are:
- Kadai
- Padang (Samala)
- Mananga
- Mangei (Soboyo)
There are two linguistic strata in Taliabo, Central Maluku and Celebic, and it is not yet clear which group it belongs to, though Glottolog classifies it as Celebic.
The Soboyo dialect of Taliabo is notable for preserving Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *h, but only in word-initial position.
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Fricative | f | s | ʃ | h | ||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
All stop sounds (except for /ʔ/) and fricatives /s, ʃ/, may also be prenasalized in both word-initial and word-medial positions as /ᵐb, ⁿd, ᶮdʒ, ᵑɡ/.[3][4]
Vowels
[edit]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
References
[edit]- ↑ Taliabo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Kadai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ↑ Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.
- ↑ Ridwan, Farida M.; Mulae, Sunaidin O.; Asriyani, Sherly (2020). Phonological Variation of Taliabu Language Dialects. Retorika Jurnal Bahasa Sastra dan Pengajarannya.
- ↑ Blust, Robert (1981). The Soboyo Reflexes of Proto-Austronesian *S. Historical Linguistics in Indonesia, Part 1. pp. 21–30.
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Further reading
[edit]- Fortgens, J. (1921). Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Sobojo (eiland Taliabo, Soela-groep) [Contribution to knowledge of Sobojo, on Taliabo, Sula islands] (in Dutch). Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff.