Dawera-Daweloor language

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

Dawera-Daweloor
Native toIndonesia
RegionMaluku
Native speakers
1,300 (2007)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3ddw
Glottologdawe1237[2]

Phonology

Consonants

Dawera-Daweloor has the following consonants.[3]

BilabialCoronalPalatalVelarGlottal
Stop: voiceless ptk
Stop: voiced d
Fricative sh
Nasal mn
Lateral l
Rhotic r
Semivowel wj

Vowels

Dawera-Daweloor has the following vowels.[3]

frontback
unrounded
back
rounded
High iu
Non-High eao

Notes

  1. Dawera-Daweloor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dawera-Daweloor". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Chlenova 2002.
gollark: <@!258639553357676545> what
gollark: <@593113791252660224> What exactly are you trying to do?
gollark: https://osmarks.tk/emu-war/Try the new Emu War game, contributed by <@!332271551481118732>. Looking at the code should probably be avoided (some offense).
gollark: You can postpone mine. I like game theory.
gollark: I mean, Scratch less so.

References

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


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