Sawila language

Sawila, or Tanglapui, is a Papuan language of the Alor archipelago. Dialects are Sawila proper, Lona, Salimana, Lalamana, Sileba. Sawila speakers refer to their language as Manata.^[2]

Sawila
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Alor Island
Native speakers	3,000 (2014)[1]
Language family	Trans–New Guinea ? West Bomberai ? Timor–Alor–Pantar Alor–Pantar Alor East Tanglapui Sawila
Language codes
ISO 639-3	swt
Glottolog	sawi1256
ELP	Sawila

Phonology

Sawila consonant phonemes

		Labial	Alveodental	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ ⟨ng⟩
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ ⟨'⟩
	voiced	b	d		ɡ
Fricative			s
Approximant		w		j ⟨y⟩
Lateral			l
Trill			r

Sawila vowel phonemes

	Front				Central		Back
	unrounded		rounded
	short	long	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i	iː ⟨ii⟩	y ⟨uy⟩	yː ⟨uyi⟩			u	uː ⟨uu⟩
Mid	e	eː ⟨ee⟩					o	oː ⟨oo⟩
Open					a	aː ⟨aa⟩

References

1. "The Alor-Pantar languages".
2. Kratochvíl, František (2014). "Sawila". In Schapper, Antoinette (ed.). The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 351–438.

External links

• Sawila at The Language Archive

• Indonesia portal
• Language portal