Palu'e language

Palu'e (also spelled Palue and Paluqe; native name Lu'a) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on Palu'e Island, Indonesia.

Palu'e
Lu'a
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Palu'e
Native speakers	10,000 (1997)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern MP Sumba–Flores Ende–Manggarai Central Flores Palu'e
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ple
Glottolog	palu1252
ELP	Palu'e[2]
Palu'e Palu'e Palu'e
Coordinates: 8.33°S 121.72°E

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Mid	e	o
Low	a

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Stops and affricates	Voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	ʔ
	Voiced		d	dʒ	ɡ
	Prenasalized	ⁿb	ⁿd		ⁿɡ
Nasals		m	n		ŋ
Implosive		ɓ
Fricatives	Voiceless		s
	Voiced	v
Lateral			l
Rhotic			r

References

1. Palu'e at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
2. Endangered Languages Project data for Palu'e.

Further reading

• Danerek, Stefan (2017). "Documentation of Palu'e; Storytelling and folklore". Wacana. 18 (3): 718–745. doi:10.17510/wacana.v18i3.634.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

External links

• Stefan Danerek Palu’e audio collection. Kaipuleohone, the digital language archive of the University of Hawai‘i, Honolulu.