Termanu language
Language spoken in Indonesia
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Termanu is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of Roti Island, off Timor, Indonesia. Speakers of Korbafo and Bokai dialects are ethnically distinct.
| Termanu | |
|---|---|
| Pa'da | |
| Central Rote | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Rote Island |
| Ethnicity | Rotenese |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2002)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | twu |
| Glottolog | term1237 |
Phonology
Consonants
- /ᵑɡ, l/ have variants of [ɡ, ɾ] in other dialects.
- Sounds [w, j] also occur in loanwords and interjections.
Vowels
Vowel length is also distributed.[2]
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