Dawera-Daweloor language

{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in Maluku, Indonesia}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Dawera-Daweloor

|states=Indonesia

|region=Maluku

|speakers={{sigfig|1270|2}}

|date=2007

|ref=e18

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian (MP)

|fam3=Central–Eastern MP

|fam4=Babar

|fam5=North Babar

|iso3=ddw

|glotto=dawe1237

|glottorefname=Dawera-Daweloor

|notice=IPA

}}

Dawera-Daweloor is an Austronesian language spoken in six villages on Dawera and Daweloor islands in South Maluku, Indonesia.

Phonology

= Consonants =

Dawera-Daweloor has the following consonants.Chlenova 2002.

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!colspan="2"| !! Bilabial !! Coronal !! Palatal !! Velar !! Glottal

colspan="2"| Nasal

| {{IPA link|m}} || {{IPA link|n}} || || ||

rowspan="2"| Plosive

! {{small|voiceless}}

| {{IPA link|p}} || {{IPA link|t}} || || {{IPA link|k}} ||

{{small|voiced}}

| || {{IPA link|d}} || || ||

colspan="2"| Fricative

| || {{IPA link|s}} || || || {{IPA link|h}}

colspan="2"| Lateral

| || {{IPA link|l}} || || ||

colspan="2"| Rhotic

| || {{IPA link|r}} || || ||

colspan="2"| Semivowel

| {{IPA link|w}} || || {{IPA link|j}} || ||

= Vowels =

Dawera-Daweloor has the following vowels.

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! !! front!! back
unrounded!! back
rounded

High

| {{IPA link|i}} || || {{IPA link|u}}

Non-High

| {{IPA link|e}} || {{IPA link|a}} || {{IPA link|o}}

Notes

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References

  • Svetlana Chlenova. 2002. "Daweloor, A Southwest Moluccan Language," Malaisko-indoneziiskie Issledovanlija 15:145-175.

{{Central Malayo-Polynesian languages}}

{{Languages of Indonesia}}

Category:Babar languages

Category:Languages of the Maluku Islands