Oirata language
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Oirata or Woirata (also known as Maaro) is a Timor–Alor–Pantar language spoken on the island of Kisar in Indonesia, and by some people in Ambon. Ethnologue reports an SIL figure of 1,200 speakers from 1987. It is closely related to Fataluku, of which it is sometimes considered to be a dialect.
Phonology
Vowels
Oirata has five vowels:
Consonants
Oirata has 13 consonants:
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | ʔ | |
| voiced | d | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | h | ||
| voiced | v | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Approximant | w | l | j | ||
| Trill | r |