Selaru language
{{Short description|Austronesian language in Central Maluku}}
{{Infobox language
|name = Selaru
|altname =
|nativename =
|states = Indonesia
|region = Tanimbar Islands
|speakers = 8,000
|date=2001
|ref=e18
|familycolor = Austronesian
|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian
|fam3=Central–Eastern
|fam4=Selaru languages
|iso3 = slu
|glotto=sela1259
|glottorefname=Selaru
}}
Selaru is an Austronesian language of Selaru and Yamdena, in the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. Linguistically it is not close to Seluwasan, its nearest relative.
Phonology
= Consonants =
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! colspan="2" | |
| rowspan="2" |Plosive
!voiceless | |t |k |ʔ |
|---|
| voiced
|b |d |(ɡ) | |
| colspan="2" |Fricative
|f |s | |h |
| colspan="2" |Nasal
|m |n | | |
| colspan="2" |Trill
| |r | | |
| colspan="2" |Lateral
| |l | | |
| colspan="2" |Approximant
|w | |j | |
- {{IPA|/h/}} can be heard as {{IPA|[x]}} before velar stops.
- {{IPA|/k/}} can be heard as {{IPA|[ɡ]}} within voiced environments.
- Consonants preceding glide sounds are heard as either palatalized or labialized {{IPA|[ʲ, ʷ]}}.{{Cite book |last=Coward |first=David F. |url=https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/30/04/65/30046520652544960490111992401964373988/A_Grammar_of_Selaru_v2.pdf |title=An Introduction to the Grammar of Selaru |publisher=SIL International |year=2005}}
= Vowels =
References
{{Reflist}}
Further reading
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- {{Cite book |last=Drabbe |first=P. |title=Beknopte Spraakkunst en Korte Woordenlijst der Slaroeëesche Taal |date=1932 |publisher=A. C. Nix |location=Bandung |language=Dutch |trans-title=Concise Grammar and Short Glossary of the Slaru language}}
- {{Cite book |last=Coward |first=D. |last2=Coward |first2=N. |chapter=A phonological sketch of the Selaru language |pages=9–54 |title=Spices from the East: Papers in Languages of Eastern Indonesia |date=2000 |publisher=Pacific Linguistics |editor-last=Grimes |editor-first=C. E. |series=Pacific Linguistics No. 503 |location=Canberra |doi=10.15144/PL-503.9 |doi-access=free |hdl=1885/146101 |hdl-access=free}}
- {{Cite book |last=Coward |first=D. F. |title=An Introduction to the Grammar of Selaru |date=2005 |publisher=SIL International |url=https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/30/04/65/30046520652544960490111992401964373988/A_Grammar_of_Selaru_v2.pdf |edition=version 2}}
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{{Central Malayo-Polynesian languages}}
{{Languages of Indonesia}}
Category:Central Malayo-Polynesian languages
Category:Languages of the Maluku Islands
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