Taliabo language explained

Taliabo
Region:	Taliabu Island
States:	Indonesia, Maluku
Date:	2000
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:	Celebic
Fam4:	Saluan–Banggai^[1]
Lc1:	tlv
Ld1:	Taliabo
Lc2:	kzd
Ld2:	Kadai
Glotto:	tali1261
Glottorefname:	Taliaboic
Elp:	1809
Elpname:	Kadai

Taliabo language should not be confused with Kadai languages.

Taliabo (Taliabu) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the island of the same name in the Moluccas of Indonesia.

Dialects are:

• Kadai
• Padang (Samala)
• Mananga
• Mangei (Soboyo)

There are two linguistic strata in Taliabo, Central Maluku and Celebic, and it is not yet clear which group it belongs to.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/
	voiced	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/
Nasal		pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/
Fricative		pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/	pronounced as /ink/		pronounced as /ink/
Trill			pronounced as /ink/
Lateral			pronounced as /ink/
Approximant		pronounced as /ink/		pronounced as /ink/

All stop sounds (except for pronounced as //ʔ//) and fricatives pronounced as //s, ʃ//, may also be prenasalized in both word-initial and word-medial positions as pronounced as //ᵐb, ⁿd, ᶮdʒ, ᵑɡ//.^{[2] [3]}

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	pronounced as /ink/		pronounced as /ink/
Mid	pronounced as /ink/		pronounced as /ink/
Open		pronounced as /ink/

Further reading

• Book: Fortgens, J. . 1921 . Bijdrage tot de kennis van het Sobojo (eiland Taliabo, Soela-groep) . Martinus Nijhoff . Den Haag . nl . Contribution to knowledge of Sobojo, on Taliabo, Sula islands.

Notes and References

1. Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.
2. Book: Ridwan . Farida M. . Phonological Variation of Taliabu Language Dialects . Mulae . Sunaidin O. . Asriyani . Sherly . Retorika Jurnal Bahasa Sastra dan Pengajarannya . 2020.
3. Book: Blust, Robert . The Soboyo Reflexes of Proto-Austronesian *S . 1981 . Historical Linguistics in Indonesia, Part 1 . 21–30.