Tarangan language

Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tarangan is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands in eastern Indonesia. There are two varieties of Tarangan: East and West Tarangan. These varieties are divergent, perhaps no closer than they are to Manombai, also spoken in the Arus. West Tarangan is a trade language of the southern islands.[2]

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Tarangan
Rau Jarjar
Native toIndonesia
RegionAru Islands
Native speakers
14,000 (2011)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3Either:
tre  East Tarangan
txn  West Tarangan
Glottologeast2465  East
west2538  West
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Phonology

The following is the description for West Tarangan:[3]

Consonants

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Consonant phonemes[3]
Labial Dental/
Alveolar
Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ
Plosive voiceless (p) k (ʔ)
voiced b d () (ɡ)
Fricative ɸ s
Flap ɾ
Lateral l
Approximant j w
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  • /k/ can occur as a glottal [ʔ] intervocalically between two non-high vowels.[3]
  • /ɸ/ is heard as a stop [p] syllable-final position.[3]
  • /w j/ are heard as voiced stops [ɡ ] in word-initial position and within a stressed noninitial syllable onset.[3]

Vowels

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  • /a i/ in unstressed positions are heard as [ə ɪ].[3]
  • Sounds /e o/ are phonetically [e̝ o̝].[3]

References

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