Tarangan language

Tarangan is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands in eastern Indonesia. There are two varieties of Tarangan: East and West Tarangan. These varieties are divergent, perhaps no closer than they are to Manombai, also spoken in the Arus. West Tarangan is a trade language of the southern islands.^[2]

Tarangan
Rau Jarjar
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Aru Islands
Native speakers	14,000 (2011)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Aru Tarangan
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Either: tre – East Tarangan txn – West Tarangan
Glottolog	east2465  East west2538  West

Phonology

The following is the description for West Tarangan:^[3]

Consonants

Consonant phonemes^[3]

		Labial	Dental/ Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	(p)	t̪		k	(ʔ)
	voiced	b	d	(dʒ)	(ɡ)
Fricative		ɸ	s
Flap			ɾ
Lateral			l
Approximant				j	w

• /k/ can occur as a glottal [ʔ] intervocalically between two non-high vowels.^[3]
• /ɸ/ is heard as a stop [p] syllable-final position.^[3]
• /w j/ are heard as voiced stops [ɡ dʒ] in word-initial position and within a stressed noninitial syllable onset.^[3]

Vowels

Vowel phonemes^[3]

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Close-mid	e		o
Open-mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open		a

• /a i/ in unstressed positions are heard as [ə ɪ].^[3]
• Sounds /e o/ are phonetically [e̝ o̝].^[3]