Tarangan language

Tarangan is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands in eastern Indonesia. There are two varieties of Tarangan: East and West Tarangan. These varieties are divergent, perhaps no closer than they are to Manombai, also spoken in the Arus. West Tarangan is a trade language of the southern islands.

Phonology

The following is the description for West Tarangan:

Consonants

• can occur as a glottal intervocalically between two non-high vowels.
• is heard as a stop syllable-final position.
• are heard as voiced stops [ ] in word-initial position and within a stressed noninitial syllable onset.

Vowels

• in unstressed positions are heard as [ ].
• Sounds are phonetically .

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