Tulehu language

Tulehu
Tulehu
Souw Aman Teru
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Ambon Island, Maluku
Native speakers	(19,000 cited 1987)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern Central Maluku ? East Central Maluku Seram ? Nunusaku Piru Bay East Seram Straits Ambon Tulehu; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tlu
Glottolog	tule1244

Tulehu (also known as Souw Aman Teru; literally means "the language of three villages") is an Austronesian language spoken on Ambon Island in eastern Indonesia, part of a dialect chain of Seram Island.

Tulehu is also the name of a village; each of the villages, Tulehu, Liang, Tengah-Tengah, and Tial, is said to have its own dialect.

Phonology

Tulehu consonants
	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	p	t		k	ʔ
Nasal	m	n		ŋ
Fricative		s			h
Rhotic		r
Lateral		l
Approximant	w		j

Voiced stops can also be heard from loanwords.^[2]

^ Tulehu at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Musgrave, Simon (2015). Placename Narratives and Identity in North East Ambon Island (PDF). Paper presented at ICAL 13, Academica Sinica, Taipei.

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