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Talaud language

Talaud language

Austronesian language spoken on the Talaud Islands

Talaud is an Austronesian language spoken on the Talaud Islands north of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

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Phonology

Consonants

More information Labial, Alveolar ...
  • /tʃ/ can be heard as a palatal stop [c], depending on the dialect.
  • The velar fricative sound /ɣ/ may also be pronounced as voiceless [x].[2]

Vowels

More information Front, Central ...

References

  1. [1]
    Talaud at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Utsumi 2016.

Further reading

  • Bawole, G. (1981). Struktur Bahasa Talaud (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departmen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan – via Laboratorium Kebinekaan Bahasa dan Sastra.
  • Utsumi, Atsuko (2013). "Talaud Verbs: Paradigm of Basic Verbs". Tokyo University Linguistic Papers. 33: 319–361. doi:10.15083/00027520.
  • Utsumi, Atsuko (2016). "A Dialectal Study of Talaud: Dialectal Classification and a Comparative Word List". Bulletin of Meisei University. Department of Japanese and Comparative Culture, School of Humanities. 24: 163(37)–135(70).
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