Dobu | |
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Dobuan | |
Native to | Papua New Guinea |
Region | Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel |
Native speakers | (10,000 cited 1998)
[1] 60% monolingual [1] L2 speakers: 51,000 (2021) [1] |
Latin script (Dobuan alphabet) Dobuan Braille | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
dob |
Glottolog |
dobu1241 |
Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in D'Entrecasteaux Islands.
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||
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plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | ||||
Plosive | voiceless | p | pʷ | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | ʔʷ | |
voiced | b | bʷ | d | ɡ | ɡʷ | ||||
Fricative | s | ||||||||
Nasal | m | mʷ | n | ||||||
Flap | ɺ | ||||||||
Approximant | j | w |
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
Open | a |
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