Ende language (Indonesia)

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Ende
Native to Indonesia
Regioncentral Flores
Ethnicity Ende
Native speakers
110,000 (2009) [1]
Dialects
  • Maukaro
  • Nangapanda
Lontara script (Lota Ende variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 end
Glottolog ende1246
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Ende
Coordinates: 8°43′S121°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]

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Phonology

Consonants [2]
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ ⟨ng⟩
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ ⟨'⟩
voiced b d ɡ
prenasalized ᵐb ⟨mb⟩ ⁿd ⟨nd⟩ ᵑɡ ⟨ngg⟩
implosive ɓ ⟨bh⟩ ɗ ⟨dh⟩
Affricate d͡ʒ ⟨j⟩
Fricative f s ɣ ⟨gh⟩( h )
Trill r
Lateral l
Approximant w ɹ ⟨rh⟩
Vowels [2]
Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid e ⟨é⟩ ə ⟨e⟩ o
Open a

Grammar

Like all Central Flores languages, Ende has a highly isolating structure. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ende at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. 1 2 3 McDonnell, Bradley (2009). "A Preliminary Description of Ende Phonology" (PDF). Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 2: 195–226.
  3. ↑ Elias, Alexander (2019). Lio and the Central Flores languages (M.A. thesis). Leiden University. hdl: 1887/69452 .
  4. ↑ Elias, Alexander (2020). "Are the Central Flores languages really typologically unusual?". Berkeley: University of California.


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