Adonara language explained

Adonara
Nativename:Adonara
States:Indonesia
Region:Adonara, eastern Solor
Speakers:98,000
Date:2008
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam3:Central–Eastern
Fam4:Flores–Lembata
Fam5:Lamaholot
Iso3:adr
Glotto:adon1237
Glottorefname:Adonara

Adonara is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of the island of Adonara and the eastern end of the neighbouring island of Solor, both situated east of Flores in Indonesia.

Phonology

Vowels!!Front!Central!Back
Closepronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/
Midpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Openpronounced as /ink/
!Labial!Alveolar!Palatal!Velar!Glottal
Nasalpronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/
Plosive/
Affricate
voicelesspronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/(pronounced as /ink/)
voicedpronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/
Fricativepronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/
Rhoticpronounced as /ink/
Approximantpronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/

The glottal stop [Ę”] mainly occurs in word-initial positions before vowels, and in word-medial positions before vowels.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Michels, Marc . Western Lamaholot: A cross-dialectal grammar sketch . Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden . 2017.