Ende language (Indonesia)
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Language on Flores island, Indonesia
For the Ende language spoken on Sulawesi, see
Baras language
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Native to | Indonesia |
Region | central Flores |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2009)[1] |
Austronesian
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Lontara script (Lota Ende variant) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | end |
Glottolog | ende1246 |
Coordinates: 8°43′S 121°34′E / 8.71°S 121.56°E / -8.71; 121.56 |
Ende is an
Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia.[2] It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup.[3]
Phonology
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n
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ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | |||
Plosive | voiceless | p | t
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k | ʔ ⟨'⟩ | |
voiced | b | d
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ɡ | |||
prenasalized | ᵐb ⟨mb⟩ | ⁿd ⟨nd⟩ | ᵑɡ ⟨ngg⟩ | |||
implosive | ɓ ⟨bh⟩ | ɗ ⟨dh⟩ | ||||
Affricate | d͡ʒ ⟨j⟩ | |||||
Fricative | f | s | ɣ ⟨gh⟩ | (h) | ||
Trill | r
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Lateral | l
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Approximant | w | ɹ ⟨rh⟩
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Grammar
See also: Central Flores languages § Grammar
Like all Central Flores languages, Ende has a highly isolating structure.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Ende at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- ^ a b McDonnell, Bradley (2009). "A Preliminary Description of Ende Phonology" (PDF). Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 2: 195–226.
- hdl:1887/69452.
- ^ Elias, Alexander (2020). "Are the Central Flores languages really typologically unusual?". Berkeley: University of California.
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