Lio language
Lio (also spelled 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]
| Lio | |
|---|---|
| Li'o | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Central Flores |
Native speakers | 220,000 (2009 census)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ljl |
| Glottolog | lioo1240 |
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
- Lio at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- Elias, Alexander (2019). Lio and the Central Flores languages (M.A. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/69452.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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).CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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