Tobati | |
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Yotafa | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Region | Papua |
Ethnicity | Tobati |
Native speakers | 100 (2007)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | tti |
Glottolog | toba1266 |
ELP | Tobati |
![]() Tobati is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
Tobati, or Yotafa, is an Austronesian language spoken in Jayapura Bay in Papua province, Indonesia. It was once thought to be a Papuan language.[1] Notably, Tobati displays a very rare object–subject–verb word order.[2]
Phonology
[edit]Labial | Labio- dental |
Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | ||
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Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ[a] | |||
Stop | voiceless | t | c | k | |||
voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ||||
Fricative | voiceless | ɸ | f | s | ʃ | h[b] | |
voiced | ɣ~ɰ | ||||||
Approximant | w | j | |||||
Rhotic | r |
/f/ also shows allophony as [p]. However, it does not behave as a stop (see below).
Tobati has a five-vowel system of /a e i o u/, realized as /a ɛ i ɔ ʊ/ in closed syllables.
Phonotactics
[edit]Tobati permits three consonants in the onset, and at most a single consonant or a nasal-stop cluster in the coda.
Nasal-stop clusters only permit a nasal and a stop of the same place of articulation. For the /nd/ sequence, /n/ becomes dental [n̪]. Neither the bilabial, consisting of /b/ and the /f/ allophone [p], nor palatal nasal-stop clusters distinguish voice (i.e. they are [pm~bm] and [cɲ~d͡ʒɲ] respectively). The /Nk/ sequence voices to [ŋg].[2]
References
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† indicate extinct languages |