| Tobati | |
|---|---|
| Yotafa | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Papua |
| Ethnicity | Tobati |
Native speakers | 100 (2007) [1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tti |
| Glottolog | toba1266 |
| ELP | Tobati |
 Tobati is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
Tobati, or Yotafa, is an Austronesian language spoken in Jayapura Bay in Papua province, Indonesia. It was once thought to be a Papuan language. [1] Notably, Tobati displays a very rare object–subject–verb word order. [2]
| Labial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ [a] | |||
| Stop | voiceless | t | c | k | |||
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | f | s | ʃ | h [b] | |
| voiced | ɣ ~ ɰ | ||||||
| Approximant | w | j | |||||
| Rhotic | r | ||||||
/f/ also shows allophony as [p]. However, it does not behave as a stop (see below).
Tobati has a five-vowel system of / a e i o u /, realized as / a ɛ i ɔ ʊ / in closed syllables.
Tobati permits three consonants in the onset, and at most a single consonant or a nasal-stop cluster in the coda.
Nasal-stop clusters only permit a nasal and a stop of the same place of articulation. For the /nd/ sequence, /n/ becomes dental [ n̪ ]. Neither the bilabial, consisting of /b/ and the /f/ allophone [p], nor palatal nasal-stop clusters distinguish voice (i.e. they are [pm~bm] and [cɲ~d͡ʒɲ] respectively). The /Nk/ sequence voices to [ŋg]. [2]
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