Dawera-Daweloor language

Dawera-Daweloor is an Austronesian language spoken in six villages on Dawera and Daweloor islands in South Maluku, Indonesia.

Dawera-Daweloor
Native toIndonesia
RegionMaluku
Native speakers
1,300 (2007)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3ddw
Glottologdawe1237[2]

Phonology

Consonants

Dawera-Daweloor has the following consonants.[3]

BilabialCoronalPalatalVelarGlottal
Stop: voiceless ptk
Stop: voiced d
Fricative sh
Nasal mn
Lateral l
Rhotic r
Semivowel wj

Vowels

Dawera-Daweloor has the following vowels.[3]

frontback
unrounded
back
rounded
High iu
Non-High eao

Notes

  1. Dawera-Daweloor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Dawera-Daweloor". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Chlenova 2002.

References

  • Svetlana Chlenova. 2002. "Daweloor, A Southwest Moluccan Language," Malaisko-indoneziiskie Issledovanlija 15:145-175.


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