Termanu language

Termanu is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of Roti Island, off Timor, Indonesia. Speakers of Korbafo and Bokai dialects are ethnically distinct.

Phonology

Consonants {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |- !colspan="2"| ! Labial ! Apical ! Velar !Glottal |- !colspan="2"| Nasal

! rowspan="3" | Stop ! voiceless

!voiced

! prenasal

! colspan="2" |Fricative

!colspan="2"|Lateral

/ᵑɡ, l/ have variants of [ɡ, ɾ] in other dialects. Sounds [w, j] also occur in loanwords and interjections.

Vowels {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" ! ! Front !Central ! Back |- ! High

! Mid

! Low

Vowel length is also distributed.

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