| Tabaru | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Halmahera |
| Ethnicity | Tabaru |
Native speakers | (15,000 cited 1991)[1] |
West Papuan?
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | tby |
| Glottolog | taba1263 |
Tabaru is aNorth Halmahera language of Indonesia.
Tabaru has a simple five vowel system: a, e, i, o, u.[2]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | |
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||
| Semivowel | j | w | ||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
On the surface level, Tabaru only allows syllables of the type (C)V. Words with an underlying final consonant add an echo vowel:ngówaka (/ngowak/) ′child′,ókere (/oker/) ′drink′,sárimi (/sarim/) ′paddle′,ódomo (/odom/) ′eat′,pálusu (/palus/) ′answer′. The echo vowel is dropped when a suffix is added:woísene (/woisen/) ′hear′, butwoisenoka (/woisen/ + /oka/) ′heard′. Stress regularly falls on the penultimate syllable, but shifts to the antepenultimate when the word takes an echo vowel.[3]: 163
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