| Southeast Babar | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Maluku |
Native speakers | 4,500 (2007)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | vbb |
| Glottolog | sout2883 |
Southeast Babar is an Austronesian language spoken on Babar Island in South Maluku, Indonesia.[2]
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Dorsal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k |
| voiced | b | d | (ɡ) | |
| Nasal | m | n | (ŋ) | |
| Fricative | (f) | (s) | x | |
| Trill | r | |||
| Lateral | l | |||
| Approximant | w | j | ||
- Sounds /ɡ s ŋ/ only occur in loanwords.
- /f/ is only attested in loanwords and also infrequently in roots.
- /b/ and /d/ are marginal and only occur in a few words.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
- /ɛ, ɔ/ are heard as more closed [e, o] when occurring before glides /w, j/.[3]
References
- ↑ Southeast Babar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ Taber, Mark (1993). "Toward a better understanding of the Indigenous Languages of Southwestern Maluku". Oceanic Linguistics. 32 (2): 389–441. JSTOR 3623199.
- ↑ Steinhauer, Hein (2009). The sounds of Southeast Babar. Adelaar, K. Alexander and Pawley, Andrew (eds.), Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust: Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University. pp. 399–409.
Further reading
- Hein Steinhauer. 2009. The sounds of Southeast Babar. In Adelaar, K. Alexander and Pawley, Andrew (eds.), Austronesian historical linguistics and culture history: a festschrift for Robert Blust, 399-409. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University.
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