Lio language
| Li'o | |
|---|---|
| Li'o | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Central Flores |
Native speakers | 220,000 (2009 census)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ljl |
| Glottolog | lioo1240 |
Li'o is an Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup.[2]
Phonology
| Labial/ labiodental |
Dental/ alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| prenasalized | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
| implosive | ɓ | ɗ | ||||
| Affricate | d͡ʒ | |||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | (h) | ||
| voiced | ɣ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | ʋ | ɰ | ||||
Following general Indonesian spelling conventions, /d͡ʒ/, /ŋ/, /ʔ/ are written j, ng and '. The prenasalized stops are written as mb, nd, ngg, the ejectives as bh and dh. /ɹ/ is represented by rh. The approximants /ʋ/ and /ɰ/ are written w and gh.
References
- ^ Li'o at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- ^ a b Elias, Alexander (2019). Lio and the Central Flores languages (M.A. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/69452.
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Further reading
- Ni Made Suryati; Aron Meko Mbete; Multamia Lauder; Ni Made Dhanawaty (2012). "Phonological and lexical varieties of Lio language in Flores, East Nusa Tenggara: A study of geographical dialect". e-Journal of Linguistics. 6 (1).
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