Dawera-Daweloor language

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Dawera-Daweloor
Spoken in: Indonesia 
Region: Maluku
Total speakers: 1,500
Language family: Austronesian
 Malayo-Polynesian
  Central-Eastern
   Central
    Babar
     North Babar
      Dawera-Daweloor
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2: –
ISO 639-3: ddw
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode.

Dawera-Daweloor is an Austronesian language spoken in six villages on Dawera and Daweloor islands in South Maluku, Indonesia. [1]

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[edit] Phonology

[edit] Consonants

Dawera-Daweloor has the following consonants. [2]

Bilabial Coronal Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop: voiceless p t k
Stop: voiced d
Fricative s h
Nasal m n
Lateral l
Rhotic r
Semivowel w j

[edit] Vowels

Dawera-Daweloor has the following vowels. [3]

front back
unrounded		 back
rounded
High i u
Non-High e a o

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  2. ^ Chlenova 2002.
  3. ^ Chlenova 2002.

[edit] References

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