Tabaru language
| Tabaru | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Halmahera |
Native speakers | (15,000 cited 1991)[1] |
West Papuan?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tby |
| Glottolog | taba1263 |
Tabaru is a North Halmahera language of Indonesia.
Phonology
Vowels
Tabaru has a simple five vowel system: a, e, i, o, u.[2]
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n
|
ɲ | ŋ | ||
Plosive
|
voiceless | p | t
|
c | k | |
| voiced | b | d
|
ɟ | ɡ | ||
Fricative
|
f | s | h | |||
| Semivowel | j | w | ||||
| Lateral | l
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| Trill | r
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Syllable structure and stress
On the surface level, Tabaru only allows syllables of the type (C)V. Words with an underlying final consonant add an echo vowel: ngówaka (/ngowak/) ′child′, ókere (/oker/) ′drink′, sárimi (/sarim/) ′paddle′, ódomo (/odom/) ′eat′, pálusu (/palus/) ′answer′. The echo vowel is dropped when a suffix is added: woísene (/woisen/) ′hear′, but woisenoka (/woisen/ + /oka/) ′heard′. Stress regularly falls on the penultimate syllable, but shifts to the antepenultimate when the word takes an echo vowel.[3]: 163
References
- ^ Tabaru at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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