| Tarangan | |
| States: | Indonesia |
| Region: | Aru Islands |
| Speakers: | 14,000 |
| Date: | 2011 |
| Ref: | e18 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | Central–Eastern |
| Fam4: | Aru |
| Lc1: | tre |
| Ld1: | East Tarangan |
| Lc2: | txn |
| Ld2: | West Tarangan |
| Glotto: | east2465 |
| Glottoname: | East |
| Glottorefname: | East Tarangan |
| Glotto2: | west2538 |
| Glottoname2: | West |
| Glottorefname2: | West Tarangan |
Tarangan is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands in eastern Indonesia. There are two varieties of Tarangan: East and West Tarangan. These varieties are divergent, perhaps no closer than they are to Manombai, also spoken in the Arus. West Tarangan is a trade language of the southern islands.[1]
The following is the description for West Tarangan:[2]
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | (pronounced as /link/) | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | (pronounced as /link/) | (pronounced as /link/) | |||
| Fricative | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Flap | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open-mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ |