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Lio (also erroneously 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

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

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