Wetarese language
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| Wetarese | |
|---|---|
| Wetar | |
| Tutunohan | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Wetar Island |
Native speakers | (11,000 cited 1990–2010)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:apx – Aputaiilu – Iliʼuunwet – Peraitzn – Tugun |
| Glottolog | weta1245 |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
Wetarese is an Austronesian language of Wetar, an island in the south Maluku, Indonesia, and of the nearby island Liran.[2]
Background
[edit | edit source]The four identified principal varieties of Wetarese on Wetar – Aputai, Iliʼuun, Perai and Tugun – are distinct enough that some may consider them to be different languages.
Wetarese is closely related to Galoli (spoken on the north coast of East Timor and by an immigrant community on the south coast of Wetar) and to Atauran (spoken on Atauro island).
Phonology
[edit | edit source]The following represents the Tugun dialect:[3]
Consonants
[edit | edit source]| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | dʒ | ɡ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | h | ||
| voiced | v | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Tap/Trill | ɾ ~ r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
- /v/ may also be heard as [w] in free variation.[3]
- /r/ is mainly heard as [r] in word-final position or in slower speech, it is heard as [ɾ] elsewhere.[3]
- /ʔ/ only occurs in word-medial positions.[3]
Vowels
[edit | edit source]| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
- Sounds /e u/ are also heard as [ɛ ʊ].[3]
Citations
[edit | edit source]- ^ Aputai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Iliʼuun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Perai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Tugun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
- ^ a b c d e f g Hinton (2000), p. 115
References
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