Sawila language
| Sawila | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Alor Island |
Native speakers | 3,000 (2014)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | swt |
| Glottolog | sawi1256 |
| ELP | Sawila |
Sawila, or Tanglapui, is a Papuan language of the Alor archipelago. Dialects are Sawila proper, Lona, Salimana, Lalamana, Sileba. Sawila speakers refer to their language as Manata.[2]
Phonology
[edit]| Labial | Alveodental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ ⟨'⟩ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Approximant | w | j ⟨y⟩ | ||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||||||
| short | long | short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i | iː ⟨ii⟩ | y ⟨uy⟩ | yː ⟨uyi⟩ | u | uː ⟨uu⟩ | ||
| Mid | e | eː ⟨ee⟩ | o | oː ⟨oo⟩ | ||||
| Open | a | aː ⟨aa⟩ | ||||||
References
[edit]- ^ "The Alor-Pantar languages".
- ^ Kratochvíl, František (2014). "Sawila". In Schapper, Antoinette (ed.). The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 351–438.
External links
[edit]- Sawila at The Language Archive
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