Waimoa language
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| Waimoa | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Northeast East Timor | |
| Total speakers: | 3,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Central Timor Nuclear Waima'a Waimoa |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO 639-3: | wmh | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Waimoa or Waima'a is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken by about 3,000 people in northeast East Timor. It is reported to be mutually intelligible with Kairui-Midiki. Waimoa is one of four languages, which are united called Kawaimina.
[edit] Phonology
Waimoa is one of only two Austronesian languages known to have a set of ejective stops, the other being Yapese:
| Bilabial | Coronal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voiceless unaspirated | p | t | k | ʔ |
| Voiceless aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | kʰ | |
| Voiceless ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | |
| Voiced plain | b | d | ɡ |
[edit] References
- Hajek, John; Bowden, John (June 2002). "A Phonological Oddity in the Austronesian Area: Ejectives in Waimoa". Oceanic Linguistics 41 (1): 222–224. doi:.
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