Tulehu language

Tulehu (also known as Souw Aman Teru; literally means "the language of three villages") is an Austronesian language spoken on Ambon Island in eastern Indonesia, part of a dialect chain of Seram Island.

Tulehu
Souw Aman Teru
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Ambon Island, Maluku
Native speakers	(19,000 cited 1987)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Central Maluku ? East Central Maluku Seram ? Nunusaku Piru Bay East Seram Straits Ambon Tulehu
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tlu
Glottolog	tule1244

Tulehu is also the name of a village; each of the villages, Tulehu, Liang, Tengah-Tengah, and Tial, is said to have its own dialect.

Phonology

Tulehu consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p	t		k	ʔ
Nasal	m	n		ŋ
Fricative		s			h
Rhotic		r
Lateral		l
Approximant	w		j

Voiced stops can also be heard from loanwords.^[2]

Tulehu vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a