| Lio | |
|---|---|
| Li'o | |
| Pronunciation | [lio] |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Central Flores |
| Native speakers | 220,000 (2009 census) |
| Language family | Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ljl |
| Glottolog | lioo1240 |
Lio (also erroneously 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.
Phonology
| Labial/ labiodental |
Dental/ alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t̪ | k | ʔ ⟨'⟩ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| prenasalized | ᵐb ⟨mb⟩ | ⁿd ⟨nd⟩ | ᵑɡ ⟨ngg⟩ | |||
| implosive | ɓ ⟨bh⟩ | ɗ ⟨dh⟩ | ||||
| Affricate | d͡ʒ ⟨j⟩ | |||||
| Fricative | f | s | (ɣ) | (h) | ||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | ʋ ⟨w⟩ | ɰ ⟨gh⟩ | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
References
- Lio at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- ^ Elias, Alexander (2019). Lio and the Central Flores Languages (M.A. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/69452.
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).
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