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Austronesian language in Central Maluku
Selaru | |
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Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Tanimbar Islands |
Native speakers | 8,000 (2001)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | slu |
Glottolog | sela1259 |
Selaru is an Austronesian language of Selaru and Yamdena, in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. Linguistically it is not close to Seluwasan, its nearest relative.
Phonology
[edit]Consonants
[edit]Labial | Alveolar | Dorsal | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | t | k | ʔ | |
voiced | b | d | (ɡ) | ||
Fricative | f | s | h | ||
Nasal | m | n | |||
Trill | r | ||||
Lateral | l | ||||
Approximant | w | j |
- /h/ can be heard as [x] before velar stops.
- /k/ can be heard as [ɡ] within voiced environments.
- Consonants preceding glide sounds are heard as either palatalized or labialized [ʲ, ʷ].[2]
Vowels
[edit]Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | a |
References
[edit]- ^ Selaru at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Coward, David F. (2005). An Introduction to the Grammar of Selaru (PDF). SIL International.
Further reading
[edit]- Drabbe, P. (1932). Beknopte Spraakkunst en Korte Woordenlijst der Slaroeëesche Taal [Concise Grammar and Short Glossary of the Slaru language] (in Dutch). Bandung: A. C. Nix.
- Coward, D.; Coward, N. (2000). "A phonological sketch of the Selaru language". In Grimes, C. E. (ed.). Spices from the East: Papers in Languages of Eastern Indonesia. Pacific Linguistics No. 503. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 9–54. doi:10.15144/PL-503.9. hdl:1885/146101.
- Coward, D. F. (2005). An Introduction to the Grammar of Selaru (PDF) (version 2 ed.). SIL International.
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† indicate extinct languages |
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