Ende language (Indonesia)
Language on Flores island, Indonesia
Ende is an Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia.[2] It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup.[3]
| Ende | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | central Flores |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2009)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Lontara script (Lota Ende variant) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | end |
| Glottolog | ende1246 |
  Ende | |
| Coordinates: 8°43′S 121°34′E / 8.71°S 121.56°E | |
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ ⟨ng⟩ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | 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 ⟨gh⟩ | (h) | ||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | ɹ ⟨rh⟩ | ||||
Grammar
Like all Central Flores languages, Ende has a highly isolating structure.[4]
See also
References
- ^ Ende at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
- ^ 2.0 2.1 McDonnell, Bradley (2009). "A Preliminary Description of Ende Phonology" (PDF). Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 2: 195–226.
- ^ Elias, Alexander (2019). Lio and the Central Flores languages (M.A. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/69452.
- ^ Elias, Alexander (2020). "Are the Central Flores languages really typologically unusual?". Berkeley: University of California.
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