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.
Plosive | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
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Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
Rhotic | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ |
Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
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Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
Open | pronounced as /link/ |