| Nativename | Adonara |
|---|---|
| States | Indonesia |
| Region | Adonara, eastern Solor |
| Speakers | 98,000 |
| Date | 2008 |
| Ref | e18 |
| Familycolor | Austronesian |
| Fam 2 | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam 3 | Central–Eastern |
| Fam 4 | Flores–Lembata |
| Fam 5 | Lamaholot |
| Iso 3 | 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
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | k | (ʔ) | |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||
The glottal stop [ʔ] mainly occurs in word-initial positions before vowels, and in word-medial positions before vowels.[1]
References
- ^ Michels, Marc (2017). Western Lamaholot: A cross-dialectal grammar sketch. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.