Adonara language

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Adonara
Adonara
Native to Indonesia
Region Adonara, eastern Solor
Native speakers
98,000 (2008) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 adr
Glottolog adon1237

Adonara is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of the island of Adonara and the eastern end of the neighbouring island of Solor, both situated 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.