Adonara language

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Adonara
Adonara
Native toIndonesia
RegionAdonara, eastern Solor
Native speakers
98,000 (2008)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3adr
Glottologadon1237

Adonara is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of the islands of Adonara and Solor, east of Flores in Indonesia.

Phonology

Vowels
Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid e ə o
Open a
Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m
n
ŋ
Plosive/
Affricate
voiceless p
t
k (ʔ)
voiced b
d
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

  1. ^ Adonara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Michels, Marc (2017). Western Lamaholot: A cross-dialectal grammar sketch. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.