Lio language

Lio (also spelled Li'o) is an Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia. It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup.[2]

Lio
Li'o
Native toIndonesia
RegionCentral Flores
Native speakers
220,000 (2009 census)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3ljl
Glottologlioo1240

Phonology

Consonants[2]
Labial/
labiodental
Dental/
alveolar
Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ŋ ng
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ '
voiced b d ɡ
prenasalized ᵐb mb ⁿd nd ᵑɡ ngg
implosive ɓ bh ɗ dh
Affricate d͡ʒ j
Fricative f s ɣ (h)
Trill r
Lateral l
Approximant ʋ w ɰ gh

References

  1. Lio at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019) closed access
  2. Elias, Alexander (2019). Lio and the Central Flores Languages (M.A. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/69452.

Further reading

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