Yamdena language
Yamdena is an Austronesian language of Yamdena and surrounding islands in the Maluku Islands in Indonesia.
| Yamdena | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Maluku Islands |
Native speakers | (25,000 cited 1991)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jmd |
| Glottolog | yamd1240 |
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | |
| voiced | b | d | |||
| prenasal | ᵐp | ⁿd | |||
| Fricative | f | s | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
| Rhotic | r | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | |||
- Stops /b, t/ can very rarely be realized as coarticulated sounds [ɡ͡b, k͡t] by some speakers.
- /m/ can be heard as voiceless [m̥] in free variation when before initial voiceless stops, or after voiceless stops.
- /ŋ/ is heard as labialized [ŋʷ] when occurring before liquids, or in word-final position.
- /r/ can be heard as [ɺ] in free variation intervocalically, and as [ɾ] when before voiceless consonants.
- /d, ⁿd/ when occurring before /i/ can also be heard as palatal stops [ɟ, ᶮɟ].
References
- Yamdena at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- Mettler, Heidi & Anton (1990). Yamdena phonology. Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures 8: Pattimura University. pp. 29–79.
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