Wetarese | |
Also Known As: | Wetar |
Nativename: | Tutunohan |
States: | Indonesia |
Region: | Wetar Island |
Date: | 1990–2010 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Austronesian |
Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
Fam3: | Central–Eastern |
Fam4: | Timoric |
Fam5: | Wetar–Galoli |
Lc1: | apx |
Ld1: | Aputai |
Lc2: | ilu |
Ld2: | Iliuun |
Lc3: | wet |
Ld3: | Perai |
Lc4: | tzn |
Ld4: | Tugun |
Glotto: | weta1245 |
Glottorefname: | Wetar |
Elp: | 1347 |
Elpname: | Aputai |
Wetarese is an Austronesian language of Wetar, an island in the south Maluku, Indonesia, and of the nearby island Liran.
The four identified principal varieties of Wetarese on Wetar - Aputai, Iliʼuun, Perai and Tugun - are distinct enough that some may consider them to be different languages.
Wetarese is closely related to Galoli (spoken on the north coast of East Timor and by an immigrant community on the south coast of Wetar) and to Atauran (spoken on Atauro island).
The following represents the Tugun dialect:
Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
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voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
voiced | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
Tap/Trill | pronounced as /link/ ~ pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
Lateral | pronounced as /link/ |
Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
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Close-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
Open | pronounced as /link/ |