Doutai language

Doutai
Taori-So
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Western New Guinea
Ethnicity	340 (1993)[1]
Native speakers	(70 cited 2000)[1]
Language family	Lakes Plain Central Doutai–Waritai? Doutai
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tds
Glottolog	dout1240
ELP	Doutai

Doutai (Taori, Tolitai) is a Lakes Plain language of Irian Jaya, Indonesia. It is spoken in Toli-Dou village, located southwest of Taiyeve town.^[2]

Phonology

Doutai, like Kirikiri, has the fricativized high vowels iʼ and uʼ. There are 7 vowels in all :^[3]

iʼ	uʼ
i	u
e	o
a

References

1. Doutai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2019). "Indonesia languages". Ethnologue: Languages of the World (22nd ed.). Dallas: SIL International.
3. Foley, William A. (2018). "The languages of Northwest New Guinea". In Palmer, Bill (ed.). The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area: A Comprehensive Guide. The World of Linguistics. Vol. 4. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 433–568. ISBN 978-3-11-028642-7.