Dela-Oenale language

Dela-Oenale
Western Rote
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Rote Island
Native speakers	7,000 (2002)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Timor–Babar Rote–Meto Nuclear Rote Dela-Oenale
Dialects	Dela (Delha) Oenale (Oe Nale)
Language codes
ISO 639-3	row
Glottolog	dela1251
ELP	Dela-Oenale

Dela–Oenale (Western Rote, Delha, Oe Nale, Rote, Rote Barat, Roti) is an Austronesian language of Indonesia. Western Rote is a member of the Timor-Babar branch of Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken in west coast of Rote Island near Timor by about 7,000 people.

Alphabet

Western Rote language has all 26 English letters (Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz), the glottal stop, 5 digraphs (gh, kh, mb, nd, ng, sy) and a trigraph (ngg).

gh (replaced by g), kh (k), q (k), sy, v (f), x, and z (s) are only used in loanwords and foreign names.

References

1. Dela-Oenale at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

External links

• Alphabet and pronunciation