Sawila language
Sawila, or Tanglapui, is a Papuan language of the Alor archipelago. Dialects are Sawila proper, Lona, Salimana, Lalamana, Sileba. Sawila speakers refer to their language as Manata.[3]
Sawila | |
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Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Alor Island |
Native speakers | 3,000 (2014)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea ?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | swt |
Glottolog | sawi1256 [2] |
Phonology
Labial | Alveodental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ <ng> | |||
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ <'> | |
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
Fricative | s | |||||
Approximant | w | j <y> | ||||
Lateral | l | |||||
Trill | r |
Front | Central | Back | ||||||
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unrounded | rounded | |||||||
short | long | short | long | short | long | short | long | |
Close | i | iː <ii> | y <uy> | yː <uyi> | u | uː <uu> | ||
Mid | e | eː <ee> | o | oː <oo> | ||||
Open | a | aː <aa> |
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References
- "The Alor-Pantar languages:".
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sawila". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Kratochvíl, František (2014). "Sawila". In Schapper, Antoinette (ed.). The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 351–438.
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