(Redirected from East Tarangan)
Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia
| Tarangan | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Aru Islands |
Native speakers | 14,000 (2011) |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:tre – East Tarangantxn – West Tarangan |
| Glottolog | east2465 Eastwest2538 West |
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.
Phonology※
The following is the description for West Tarangan:
Consonants※
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | (p) | t̪ | k | (ʔ) | |
| voiced | b | d | (dʒ) | (ɡ) | ||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||
- /k/ can occur as a glottal [ʔ] intervocalically between two non-high vowels.
- /ɸ/ is heard as a stop [p] syllable-final position.
- /w j/ are heard as voiced stops ※ in word-initial position and within a stressed noninitial syllable onset.
Vowels※
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
- /a i/ in unstressed positions are heard as ※.
- Sounds /e o/ are phonetically ※.
References※
- ^ East Tarangan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
West Tarangan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Hughes, Jock (1987). "The languages of Kei, Tanimbar and Aru: Lexicostatistic classification" (PDF). In Soenjono Dardjowidjojo (ed.). Miscellaneous studies of Indonesian and other languages in Indonesia, part 9. NUSA 27. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya. pp. 71–111.
- ^ Nivens, Richard (1992). "A Lexical Phonology of West Tarangan". Phonological Studies in Four Languages of Maluku. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.
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