Fordata language
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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.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | t̪ | k | ʔ ⟨'⟩ | ||
| voiced | b | d | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | h | ||
| voiced | v | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Semivowel | w | j ⟨y⟩ |
- Glottal sounds /hʔ/ only occur intervocalically.
- /v/ can often be heard as [w] among younger speakers.
- /r/ can also be heard in free variation with a flap sound [ɾ].
Vowels
- Sounds /ie/ have lax sounds of [ɪ ɛ]
- /a/ can have an allophone of [ə] when before a consonant, or in word-final position.
External links
- 2021-11-03 at the Wayback Machine