Native to Indonesia Native speakers 7,000 (2002) | Region Rote Island ISO 639-3 row | |
Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
Nuclear MP
(Central–Eastern)
Timor–Babar
West Timor
Rote
Dengka – Dela Oenale
Dela-Oenale Dialects Dela (Delha)
Oenale (Oe Nale) | ||
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), glottal stop, 5 diphthongs (gh, kh, mb, nd, ng, sy) and triphthong (ngg).
gh (replaced by g), kh (k), q (k), sy, v (f), x, and z (s) are only used in loanwaords and foreign names.
References
Dela-Oenale language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA