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Ot Danum is a Barito language of the central Borneo, Indonesia, spoken by the Ot Danum people. Dialects include Cihie and Dohoi.

Phonology

Consonants

• /ɕ/ may also be heard as in free variation. In word-final position, it can be approximantized as .
• /ɾ/ can be heard as in word-final position.
• Prenasalization is said to also occur among voiced stops /b, d, d͡ʑ, ɡ/ in word-initial and intervocalic positions as .
• Stop sounds /p, t, k/ in word-final position are heard as unreleased .
• /h/ is heard as labialized when occurring anywhere within the position of /u/, and heard as a fronted velar when occurring in the position of /i/.

Consonant fronting

Consonant fronting as well as laminalizing occurs among the following consonants when anywhere within the position of /i/. The allophones are heard as following:

Vowels

• /a/ can also be heard as in free variation.
• /i, u/ are heard as when preceding a vowel.

References

1. Ot Danum at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Bamba, John (ed.) (2008). Mozaik Dayak keberagaman subsuku dan bahasa Dayak di Kalimantan Barat. Pontianak: Institut Dayakologi. ISBN 978-979-97788-5-7.
3. Inagaki, Kazuya (2005). Phonemic sketch of Dohoi/Kadorih. Kyoto University Linguistic Research 24: Kyoto University Research Information Repository. pp. 15–43.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

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