| Dobu | |
| Also Known As: | Dobuan |
| States: | Papua New Guinea |
| Region: | Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel |
| Speakers: | 10,000 |
| Date: | 1998 |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Speakers2: | 60% monolingual L2 speakers: (2021) |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Oceanic |
| Fam4: | Western Oceanic |
| Fam5: | Papuan Tip |
| Fam6: | Nuclear Papuan Tip |
| Fam7: | North Papuan Mainland – D'Entrecasteaux |
| Fam8: | Dobu–Duau |
| Iso3: | dob |
| Glotto: | dobu1241 |
| Glottorefname: | Dobu |
| Script: | Latin script (Dobuan alphabet) Dobuan Braille |
Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in D'Entrecasteaux Islands.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | lab. | plain | lab. | plain | lab. | |||||
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||||
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
| Flap | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ |