Fordata language
{{short description|Austronesian language spoken in Maluku, Indonesia}}
{{Infobox language
|name = Fordata
|nativename = {{lang|frd|Vaidida}}
|states = Indonesia
|region = Tanimbar Islands
|speakers = 50,000
|date=2000
|ref=e18
|familycolor = Austronesian
|fam2 = Malayo-Polynesian
|fam3 = Central–Eastern
|fam4 = Kei–Tanimbar
|fam5 = Kei–Fordata
|iso3 = frd
|glotto=ford1242
|glottorefname=Fordata
}}
Fordata ({{lang|frd|Vai Fordata}}, {{lang|frd|Vai Tnebar}}) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of the Moluccas. It is closely related to Kei, and more distantly to Yamdena, both also spoken in the Tanimbar Islands.{{Cite book |last=Mills |first=Roger F. |title=Currents in Pacific Linguistics: Papers on Austronesian Languages and Ethnolinguistics in Honour of George W. Grace |publisher=Pacific Linguistics |year=1991 |editor-last=Robert Blust |location=Canberra |pages=241–263 |chapter=Tanimbar-Kei: An Eastern Indonesian Subgroup}}
Phonology
= Consonants =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="2" | |
| colspan="2" |Nasal
|{{IPA link|m}} |{{IPA link|n}} | |{{IPA link|ŋ}} {{angbr|ng}} | |
|---|
| rowspan="2" |Plosive
| |{{IPA link|t̪}} | |{{IPA link|k}} |{{IPA link|ʔ}} {{angbr|'}} |
| voiced
|{{IPA link|b}} |{{IPA link|d}} | | | |
| rowspan="2" |Fricative
|{{IPA link|f}} |{{IPA link|s}} | | |{{IPA link|h}} |
| voiced
|{{IPA link|v}} | | | | |
| colspan="2" |Lateral
| |{{IPA link|l}} | | | |
| colspan="2" |Trill
| |{{IPA link|r}} | | | |
| colspan="2" |Semivowel
|{{IPA link|w}} | |{{IPA link|j}} {{angbr|y}} | | |
- Glottal sounds {{IPA|/h ʔ/}} only occur intervocalically.
- {{IPA|/v/}} can often be heard as {{IPAblink|w}} among younger speakers.
- {{IPA|/r/}} can also be heard in free variation with a flap sound {{IPAblink|ɾ}}.
= Vowels =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! !Back |
| Close
|{{IPA link|i}} | |{{IPA link|u}} |
|---|
| Mid
|{{IPA link|e}} | |{{IPA link|o}} |
| Open
| |{{IPA link|a}} | |
- Sounds {{IPA|/i e/}} have lax sounds of [{{IPA link|ɪ}} {{IPA link|ɛ}}]
- {{IPA|/a/}} can have an allophone of {{IPAblink|ə}} when before a consonant, or in word-final position.{{Cite book |last=Marshall |first=Craig |title=Spices from the East: Papers in Languages of Eastern Indonesia |publisher=Pacific Linguistics |year=2000 |editor-last=Grimes |editor-first=C. E. |series=PL-503 |location=Canberra |pages=181–235 |chapter=A Phonological Description of Fordata |doi=10.15144/PL-503.181 |doi-access=free}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.bahasafordata.net www.bahasafordata.net]
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