Termanu language

Termanu is a Central Malayo-Polynesian language of Roti Island, off Timor, Indonesia. Speakers of Korbafo and Bokai dialects are ethnically distinct.

Termanu
Pa'da
Central Rote
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Rote Island
Native speakers	30,000 (2002)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Timor–Babar Rote–Meto Nuclear Rote Termanu
Dialects	Termanu South Termanu Korbafo Bokai
Language codes
ISO 639-3	twu
Glottolog	term1237

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Apical	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ŋ
Stop	voiceless	p	t	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d̪
	prenasal	ᵐp ᵐb	ⁿd	ᵑɡ
Fricative		f	s		h
Lateral			l

• /ᵑɡ, l/ have variants of [ɡ, ɾ] in other dialects.
• Sounds [w, j] also occur in loanwords and interjections.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

Vowel length is also distributed.^[2]