Ende language (Indonesia) explained

Ende
Region:	central Flores
State:	Indonesia
Pushpin Map:	Indonesia
Coordinates:	-8.71°N 121.56°W
Speakers:	110,000
Date:	2009
Ref:	e22
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:	Central–Eastern
Fam4:	Sumba–Flores
Fam5:	Western Flores
Fam6:	Central Flores
Iso3:	end
Script:	Lontara script (Lota Ende variant)
Glotto:	ende1246
Glottorefname:	Ende

Ende is an Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia.^[1] It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup.^[2]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Plosive		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Affricate				pronounced as /link/
Fricative		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/	(pronounced as /link/)
Trill			pronounced as /link/
Lateral			pronounced as /link/
Approximant		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/

Grammar

Like all Central Flores languages, Ende has a highly isolating structure.^[3]

See also

• Lio language
• Ende Regency

Notes and References

1. McDonnell . Bradley . 2009 . A Preliminary Description of Ende Phonology . Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society . 2 . 195–226 .
2. Elias . Alexander . 2019 . Lio and the Central Flores languages . M.A. thesis . Leiden University . 1887/69452 . free.
3. Web site: Elias . Alexander . 2020 . Are the Central Flores languages really typologically unusual? . Berkeley . University of California.