Lio language

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Lio
Li'o
Pronunciation [lio]
Native to Indonesia
RegionCentral Flores
Native speakers
220,000 (2009 census) [1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ljl
Glottolog lioo1240

Lio (also erroneously spelled Li'o) is an Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup. [2]

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Phonology

Consonants [2]
Labial/
labiodental
Dental/
alveolar
Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ ng
Plosive voiceless p 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 )( h )
Trill r
Lateral l
Approximant ʋ w ɰ gh
Vowels [2]
Front Central Back
Close i u
Mid e ə o
Open a

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References

  1. Lio at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019) Closed Access logo transparent.svg
  2. 1 2 3 Elias, Alexander (2019). Lio and the Central Flores Languages (M.A. thesis). Leiden University. hdl: 1887/69452 .

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