Fordata language
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Austronesian language spoken in Maluku, Indonesia
| Fordata | |
|---|---|
| Vaidida | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Tanimbar Islands |
Native speakers | 50,000 (2000)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | frd |
| Glottolog | ford1242 |
Fordata (Vai Fordata, Vai Tnebar) is an
Moluccas. It is closely related to Kei, and more distantly to Yamdena, both also spoken in the Tanimbar Islands.[2]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n
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ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | t̪
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k | ʔ ⟨'⟩ | ||
| voiced | b | d
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| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | h | ||
| voiced | v | |||||
| Lateral | l
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| Trill | r
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| Semivowel | w | j ⟨y⟩ | ||||
- Glottal sounds /h ʔ/ only occur intervocalically.
- /v/ can often be heard as [w] among younger speakers.
- /r/ can also be heard in free variation with a flap sound [ɾ].
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
- Sounds /i e/ have lax sounds of [ɪ ɛ]
- /a/ can have an allophone of [ə] when before a consonant, or in word-final position.[3]
References
- ^ Fordata at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Mills, Roger F. (1991). "Tanimbar-Kei: An Eastern Indonesian Subgroup". In Robert Blust (ed.). Currents in Pacific Linguistics: Papers on Austronesian Languages and Ethnolinguistics in Honour of George W. Grace. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 241–263.
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