Paluʼe language

Paluʼe
sara Luʼa
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Paluʼe
Native speakers	(10,000 cited 1997)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central–Eastern MP Sumba–Flores Ende–Manggarai Central Flores Paluʼe
Writing system	Latin
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ple
Glottolog	palu1252
ELP	Palu'e
Paluʼe Paluʼe Paluʼe
Coordinates: 8.33°S 121.72°E / -8.33; 121.72

Paluʼe (also spelled Palue and Paluqe; native name Luʼa) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken on Paluʼe Island, Indonesia.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Mid	e	o
Low	a

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Velar	Glottal
Nasals		m	n		ŋ
Plosives and affricates	Voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	ʔ
	Voiced		d	dʒ	ɡ
	Prenasalized	ⁿb	ⁿd		ⁿɡ
Implosive		ɓ
Fricatives		v	s
Lateral			l
Rhotic			r

Further reading

• Danerek, Stefan. (2019). "Phonologic variation in Paluʼe, a language from Eastern Indonesia, and the divising of an orthographic system". Ethnorema (15). DOI: 10.23814/ethn.15.19.dan. https://www.ethnorema.it/en/journal/
• Danerek, Stefan. (2019). Kamus Bahasa Paluʼe-Indonesia. Depok. UI Publishing. ISBN 978-979-456-839-2. Review by Nazarudin (2020). Wacana. 21:3:496-498. http://wacana.ui.ac.id/index.php/wjhi/article/view/983/pdf_141

External links

• Stefan Danerek Paluʼe audio collection. Kaipuleohone, the digital language archive of the University of Hawaiʻi, Honolulu.