Alune language

Alune
Alune
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Maluku, Seram
Ethnicity	Alune
Native speakers	17,000 (2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Central–Eastern MP Central Maluku ? East Central Maluku Seram ? Nunusaku Three Rivers Amalumute Alune; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	alp
Glottolog	alun1238
ELP	Alune

Alune is an Austronesian language of west Seram in the Maluku archipelago of Indonesia.

Phonology

Consonants: /p/, /b/, /m/, /w/, /t/, /d/, /n/, /s/, /r/, /l/, /ɲ/, /j/, /k/, /kʷ/, /h/

Vowels: /i/, /u/, /e/, /o/, /a/

/d/ can be heard as a trill [r] in word-initial and intervocalic positions, and may also fluctuate to an affricate [dʒ] sound.
/n/ can be heard as a velar nasal [ŋ] when preceding velar stops.[2][3]

Alune at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
E. Wattimury, Ny. A. Haulussy, and J. Pentury. Struktur Bahasa Alune. 1997. Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa.
Taguchi, Yushin & Takako (1990). A phonology of Alune. Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures 8. pp. 95–127.CS1 maint: location (link)

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