Doutai language
Doutai (Taori, Tolitai) is a Lakes Plain language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is spoken in Toli-Dou village, located southwest of Taiyeve town.[3]
Doutai | |
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Taori-So | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Western New Guinea |
Ethnicity | 340 (1993)[1] |
Native speakers | 70 (2000)[1] |
Lakes Plain
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tds |
Glottolog | dout1240 [2] |
Phonology
Doutai, like Kirikiri, has the fricativized high vowels iʼ and uʼ. There are 7 vowels:[4]
iʼ uʼ i u e o a
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References
- Doutai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Doutai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
- Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.
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