Lio language

Lio
Lio
Li'o
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Central Flores
Native speakers	220,000 (2009 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern MP Sumba–Flores Ende–Manggarai Central Flores Lio; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ljl
Glottolog	lioo1240

Lio (also spelled Li'o) is an Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup.^[2]

Phonology[]

Consonants^[2]
		Labial/ labiodental	Dental/ 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	(h)
Trill			r
Lateral			l
Approximant		ʋ ⟨w⟩			ɰ ⟨gh⟩

References[]

^ Lio at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)
^ ^a ^b Elias, Alexander (2019). Lio and the Central Flores Languages (M.A. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/69452.

Further reading[]

Ni Made Suryati; Aron Meko Mbete; Multamia Lauder; Ni Made Dhanawaty (2012). "Phonological and lexical varieties of Lio language in Flores, East Nusa Tenggara: A study of geographical dialect". e-Journal of Linguistics. 6 (1).

[e22-1] Lio at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019)

[Elias2019-2] Elias, Alexander (2019). Lio and the Central Flores Languages (M.A. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/69452.

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