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Austronesian language spoken in Maluku, Indonesia
Tulehu (also known as Souw Aman Teru; literally means "the language of three villages") is an Austronesian language spoken on Ambon Island in eastern Indonesia, part of a dialect chain of Seram Island.
Tulehu is also the name of a village; each of the villages, Tulehu, Liang, Tengah-Tengah, and Tial, is said to have its own dialect.
Phonology
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
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Plosive | p | t | k | ʔ | |
Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
Fricative | s | h | |||
Rhotic | r | ||||
Lateral | l | ||||
Approximant | w | j |
Voiced stops can also be heard from loanwords.[2]
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | u | |
Mid | e | o | |
Open | a |
References
- ^ Tulehu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Musgrave, Simon (2015). Placename Narratives and Identity in North East Ambon Island (PDF). Paper presented at ICAL 13, Academica Sinica, Taipei.
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† indicate extinct languages |
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