Dawera-Daweloor language

Dawera-Daweloor
Native to Indonesia
Region Maluku
Native speakers
 1,300 (2007)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ddw
Glottolog dawe1237[2]

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

Phonology

Consonants

Dawera-Daweloor has the following consonants.[3]

Bilabial Coronal Palatal Velar Glottal
Stop: voiceless p t k
Stop: voiced d
Fricative s h
Nasal m n
Lateral l
Rhotic r
Semivowel w j

Vowels

Dawera-Daweloor has the following vowels.[3]

front back
unrounded 		back
rounded
High i u
Non-High e a o

Notes

  1. ↑ Dawera-Daweloor at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Dawera-Daweloor". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 Chlenova 2002.

References


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