| Lawangan | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Kalimantan |
| Ethnicity | Lawangan people |
Native speakers | (120,000 cited 1981) [1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either: lbx – Lawangan twy – Tawoyan |
| Glottolog | nort2888 |
Lawangan is an Austronesian language of the East Barito group. It is spoken by about 100,000 Lawangan people (one of the Dayak peoples) living in the central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Lawangan has a high degree of dialectal diversity.
Lawangan is divided into at least several dialects, including:
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | ɛ | ə | ɔ |
| Open | a |
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