| Palu'e | |
|---|---|
| Lu'a | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Palu'e |
Native speakers | 10,000 (1997)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ple |
| Glottolog | palu1252 |
| ELP | Palu'e[2] |
)  Palu'e ) Palu'e ) Palu'e | |
| Coordinates: 8°20′S 121°43′E / 8.33°S 121.72°E | |
Palu'e (also spelled Palue and Paluqe; native name Lu'a) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on Palu'e Island, Indonesia.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i | u |
| Mid | e | o |
| Low | a | |
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Post- alveolar | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops and affricates | Voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| Voiced | d | dʒ | ɡ | |||
| Prenasalized | ⁿb | ⁿd | ⁿɡ | |||
| Nasals | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Implosive | ɓ | |||||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | s | ||||
| Voiced | v | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
References
- ^ Palu'e at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Palu'e.
Further reading
- Danerek, Stefan (2017). "Documentation of Palu'e; Storytelling and folklore". Wacana. 18 (3): 718–745. doi:10.17510/wacana.v18i3.634.
External links
- Stefan Danerek Palu’e audio collection. Kaipuleohone, the digital language archive of the University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu.