| Alorese | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Alor Archipelago |
| Ethnicity | Alorese |
Native speakers | (25,000 cited 1997)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | aol |
| Glottolog | alor1247 |
Alorese (bahasa Alor) is anAustronesian language spoken by theAlorese people onAlor and the neighboring islands of theAlor archipelago in eastern Indonesia. It is not to be confused with non-Austronesian (Papuan) languages of theAlor–Pantar family which are also spoken in this region. It is also distinct fromAlor Malay, a Malay variety which is currently supplanting Alorese as the language of wider communication in the region. Alorese is the native language of several immigrant communities located along the coast of the Alor Archipelago, especially atAlor Kecil andKalabahi in Alor, and atBaranusa andMarisa in Pantar. It has also been used extensively as a trade language in the region. One of the varieties isDulolong.[2]
Alorese is closely related toLamaholot and is often classified as a dialect thereof.[3][4] Researchers like Klamer (2011), who found that Alorese shares only half its basic vocabulary with Lamaholot, consider Alorese to be distinct enough to be considered its own language.[5]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||
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