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Language spoken in Indonesia
Termanu is a
Central Malayo-Polynesian language of
Roti Island , off Timor, Indonesia. Speakers of Korbafo and Bokai dialects are ethnically distinct.
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.
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References
^
Termanu at
Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Fox, James J.; Grimes, Charles E. (1995). "Roti". In Tryon, Darrell T. (ed.). Comparative Austronesian dictionary: an introduction to Austronesian studies . Vol. 1. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. pp. 611–621.
Sources
* indicates proposed status ? indicates classification dispute † indicates
extinct status
* indicates proposed status ? indicates classification dispute † indicates
extinct status