Moronene language
Moronene is an Austronesian language spoken in Bombana Regency, Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia. It belongs to the Bungku–Tolaki branch of the Celebic subgroup.
| Moronene | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sulawesi |
Native speakers | 37,000 (2000)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mqn |
| Glottolog | moro1287 |
Phonology
Moronene has the following consonant inventory:[2]
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | g | |||
| Prenasalized plosive | voiceless | ᵐp | ⁿt | ᵑk | ||
| voiced | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑg | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | h | |||
| voiced | β | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Flap | r | ɽ | ||||
The vowel phonemes are /a e i o u/. Sequences of two like vowels are pronounced as a long vowel, e.g. nee [ne:].[2]
References
- Moronene at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Andersen, T. David (1999), "Moronene phonology" (PDF), in Wyn D. Laidig (ed.), Studies in Sulawesi linguistics, part VI, Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, pp. 1–45.
Further reading
- Mead, David. 1998. Proto–Bungku-Tolaki: Reconstruction of its phonology and aspects of its morphosyntax. PhD dissertation. Houston: Rice University.
- Mead, David. 1999. The Bungku–Tolaki languages of south-eastern Sulawesi, Indonesia. Series D-91. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
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