Tulehu language explained

Tulehu
Nativename:Souw Aman Teru
States:Indonesia
Region:Ambon Island, Maluku
Speakers:19,000
Date:1987
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:Central–Eastern
Fam4:Central Maluku ?
Fam5:East Central Maluku
Fam6:Seram ?
Fam7:Nunusaku
Fam8:Piru Bay
Fam9:East
Fam10:Seram Straits
Fam11:Ambon
Iso3:tlu
Glotto:tule1244
Glottorefname:Tulehu

Tulehu (also known as Souw Aman Teru; literally means "the language of three villages") is an Austronesian language spoken on Ambon Island in eastern Indonesia, part of a dialect chain of Seram Island.

Tulehu is also the name of a village; each of the villages, Tulehu, Liang, Tengah-Tengah, and Tial, is said to have its own dialect.

Phonology

Tulehu consonants!!Labial!Alveolar!Palatal!Velar!Glottal
Plosivepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Nasalpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Fricativepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Rhoticpronounced as /link/
Lateralpronounced as /link/
Approximantpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Voiced stops can also be heard from loanwords.[1]
Tulehu vowels!!Front!Central!Back
Closepronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Midpronounced as /link/pronounced as /link/
Openpronounced as /link/

Notes and References

  1. Musgrave . Simon . 2015 . Placename Narratives and Identity in North East Ambon Island . Paper presented at ICAL 13, Academica Sinica, Taipei . en.