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Austronesian language spoken in Flores, Indonesia
Lio (also erroneously spelled Li'o) is an Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup.[2]
Phonology
Labial/ labiodental |
Dental/ alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | |||
Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ ⟨'⟩ | |
voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
prenasalized | ᵐb ⟨mb⟩ | ⁿd ⟨nd⟩ | ᵑɡ ⟨ngg⟩ | |||
implosive | ɓ ⟨bh⟩ | ɗ ⟨dh⟩ | ||||
Affricate | d͡ʒ ⟨j⟩ | |||||
Fricative | f | s | ɣ | (h) | ||
Trill | r | |||||
Lateral | l | |||||
Approximant | ʋ ⟨w⟩ | ɰ ⟨gh⟩ |
References
- ^ Lio at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- ^ a b Elias, Alexander (2019). Lio and the Central Flores Languages (M.A. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/69452.
Further reading
- Ni Made Suryati; Aron Meko Mbete; Multamia Lauder; Ni Made Dhanawaty (2012). "Phonological and lexical varieties of Lio language in Flores, East Nusa Tenggara: A study of geographical dialect". e-Journal of Linguistics. 6 (1).
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