Austronesian language spoken in Maluku, Indonesia
Tulehu |
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Native to | Indonesia |
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Region | Ambon Island, Maluku |
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Native speakers | (19,000 cited 1987)[1] |
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Language codes |
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ISO 639-3 | tlu |
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Glottolog | tule1244 |
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Tulehu (also known as Souw Aman Teru) is an Austronesian language spoken on Ambon Island in eastern Indonesia, part of a dialect chain of Seram Island.
Tulehu is also the name of a village; each of the villages, Tulehu, Liang, Tengah-Tengah, and Tial, is said to have its own dialect.
Phonology
Voiced stops can also be heard from loanwords.[2]
References
- ^ Tulehu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Musgrave, Simon (2015). Placename Narratives and Identity in North East Ambon Island (PDF). Paper presented at ICAL 13, Academica Sinica, Taipei.
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