Talaud language
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Austronesian language spoken on the Talaud Islands
Talaud | |
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Native to | Talaud Islands |
Native speakers | 82,000 (2000 census)[1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tld |
Glottolog | tala1285 |
Coordinates: 4°07′N 126°48′E / 4.12°N 126.80°E / 4.12; 126.80 |
Talaud is an
Talaud Islands north of Sulawesi
, Indonesia.
Phonology
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive
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voiceless
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p | t
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(c) | k | ʔ | |
voiced
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b | d
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ɡ | ||||
affricate | tʃ | ||||||
Nasal | m | n
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ŋ | ||||
Fricative
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β | s | ʐ | ʃ | ɣ | h | |
Rhotic | trill | r
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tap | ɾ | ||||||
Lateral | l
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Approximant
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w |
- /tʃ/ can be heard as a palatal stop [c], depending on the dialect.
- The velar fricative sound /ɣ/ may also be pronounced as voiceless [x].[2]
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | a |
References
- ^ Talaud at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Utsumi 2016.
Further reading
- Bawole, G. (1981). Struktur Bahasa Talaud (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departmen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan – via Laboratorium Kebinekaan Bahasa dan Sastra.
- Utsumi, Atsuko (2013). "Talaud Verbs: Paradigm of Basic Verbs". Tokyo University Linguistic Papers. 33: 319–361. .
- Utsumi, Atsuko (2016). "A Dialectal Study of Talaud: Dialectal Classification and a Comparative Word List". Bulletin of Meisei University. Department of Japanese and Comparative Culture, School of Humanities. 24: 163(37)–135(70).
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- * indicates proposed status
- ? indicates classification dispute
- † indicates extinct status
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