Dawera-Daweloor language

Dawera-Daweloor language
Dawera-Daweloor
Spoken in Indonesia
Region Maluku
Native speakers 1,500  (date missing)
Language family
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ddw

Dawera-Daweloor is an Austronesian language spoken in six villages on Dawera and Daweloor islands in South Maluku, Indonesia.[1]

Contents

Phonology

Consonants

Dawera-Daweloor has the following consonants.[2]

Bilabial Coronal Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop: voiceless p t k
Stop: voiced d
Fricative s h
Nasal m n
Lateral l
Rhotic r
Semivowel w j

Vowels

Dawera-Daweloor has the following vowels.[2]

front back
unrounded
back
rounded
High i u
Non-High e a o

Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  2. ^ a b Chlenova 2002.

References

  • Svetlana Chlenova. 2002. "Daweloor, A Southwest Moluccan Language," Malaisko-indoneziiskie Issledovanlija 15:145-175.

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