Dela–Oenale language
| Dela–Oenale | |
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| Western Rote | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Rote Island |
| Ethnicity | Rotenese |
Native speakers | 7,000 (2002)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | row |
| Glottolog | dela1251 |
| ELP | Dela-Oenale |
Dela–Oenale (Western Rote, Delha, Oe Nale, Rote, Rote Barat, Roti) is an Austronesian language of Indonesia. Western Rote is a member of the Timor-Babar branch of Malayo-Polynesian languages spoken in west coast of Rote Island near Timor by about 7,000 people.
Alphabet
Western Rote language has all 26 English letters (Aa, Bb, Cc, Dd, Ee, Ff, Gg, Hh, Ii, Jj, Kk, Ll, Mm, Nn, Oo, Pp, Qq, Rr, Ss, Tt, Uu, Vv, Ww, Xx, Yy, Zz), the glottal stop, 5 digraphs (gh, kh, mb, nd, ng, sy) and a trigraph (ngg).
gh (replaced by g), kh (k), q (k), sy, v (f), x, and z (s) are only used in loanwords and foreign names.
References
- ↑ Dela–Oenale at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
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