Adonara language

Adonara
Adonara
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Adonara, eastern Solor
Native speakers	98,000 (2008)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Flores–Lembata Lamaholot Adonara
Language codes
ISO 639-3	adr
Glottolog	adon1237

Adonara is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of the islands of Adonara and Solor, east of Flores in Indonesia.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e	ə	o
Open		a

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t		k	(ʔ)
	voiced	b	d	dʒ	ɡ
Fricative			s			h
Rhotic			r
Approximant		w	l	j

The glottal stop [ʔ] mainly occurs in word-initial positions before vowels, and in word-medial positions before vowels.^[2]

References

1. Adonara at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Michels, Marc (2017). Western Lamaholot: A cross-dialectal grammar sketch. Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden.