Sawila language
Sawila, or Tanglapui, is a Papuan language of the Alor archipelago. Dialects are Sawila proper, Lona, Salimana, Lalamana, Sileba. Sawila speakers refer to their language as Manata.[3]
| Sawila | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Alor Island |
Native speakers | 3,000 (2014)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | swt |
| Glottolog | sawi1256 |
| ELP | Sawila[2] |
Phonology
| Labial | Alveodental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ <ng> | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ <'> | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Approximant | w | j <y> | ||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||||||
| short | long | short | long | short | long | short | long | |
| Close | i | iː <ii> | y <uy> | yː <uyi> | u | uː <uu> | ||
| Mid | e | eː <ee> | o | oː <oo> | ||||
| Open | a | aː <aa> | ||||||
References
- "The Alor-Pantar languages".
- Endangered Languages Project data for Sawila.
- Kratochvíl, František (2014). "Sawila". In Schapper, Antoinette (ed.). The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 351–438.
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