| Fordata | |
| Nativename: | Vaidida |
| States: | Indonesia |
| Region: | Tanimbar Islands |
| Speakers: | 50,000 |
| Date: | 2000 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Central–Eastern |
| Fam4: | Kei–Tanimbar |
| Fam5: | Kei–Fordata |
| Iso3: | frd |
| Glotto: | ford1242 |
| Glottorefname: | Fordata |
Fordata (Vai Fordata, Vai Tnebar) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of the Moluccas. It is closely related to Kei, and more distantly to Yamdena, both also spoken in the Tanimbar Islands.[1]
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ (ng) | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ (') | |||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Trill | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ (y) | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ |