Taliabo language

Taliabo
Taliabo
Taliabu
Native to	Indonesia, Maluku
Region	Taliabu Island
Native speakers	4,900 (2000)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Celebic Saluan–Banggai Taliabo; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either:; tlv – Taliabo; kzd – Kadai
Glottolog	tali1261
ELP	Kadai

Taliabo (Taliabu) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on the island of the same name in the Moluccas of Indonesia.

Dialects are:

Kadai
Padang (Samala)
Mananga
Mangei (Soboyo)

There are two linguistic strata in Taliabo, Central Maluku and Celebic, and it is not yet clear which group it belongs to.

The Soboyo dialect of Taliabo is notable for preserving Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *h, but only in word-initial position.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	ʔ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiced	b	d	dʒ	ɡ
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Fricative		f	s	ʃ		h
Trill			r
Lateral			l
Approximant		w		j

All stop sounds (except for /ʔ/) and fricatives /s, ʃ/, may also be prenasalized in both word-initial and word-medial positions as /ᵐb, ⁿd, ᶮdʒ, ᵑɡ/.^[3]^[4]

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

References

^ Taliabo at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Kadai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Charles Grimes & Owen Edwards (in process) Wallacean subgroups: unravelling the prehistory and classification of the Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste. Summary presentation at the 15th International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics.
^ Ridwan, Farida M.; Mulae, Sunaidin O.; Asriyani, Sherly (2020). Phonological Variation of Taliabu Language Dialects. Retorika Jurnal Bahasa Sastra dan Pengajarannya.
^ Blust, Robert (1981). The Soboyo Reflexes of Proto-Austronesian *S. Historical Linguistics in Indonesia, Part 1. pp. 21–30.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

References

Further reading