Ende language (Indonesia)

Ende is an Austronesian language spoken in the central part of Flores, one of the Lesser Sunda Islands in the eastern half of Indonesia.[2] It belongs to the Central Flores subgroup.[3]

For the Ende language spoken on Sulawesi, see Baras language.
Ende
Native toIndonesia
Regioncentral Flores
Native speakers
110,000 (2009)[1]
Austronesian
Lontara script (Lota Ende variant)
Language codes
ISO 639-3end
Glottologende1246
Approximate location where Ende is spoken
Approximate location where Ende is spoken
Ende
Coordinates: 8.71°S 121.56°E / -8.71; 121.56

Phonology
Consonants[2]
Labial 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 ⟨gh⟩ (h)
Trill r
Lateral l
Approximant w ɹ ⟨rh⟩

Grammar

Like all Central Flores languages, Ende has a highly isolating structure.[4]

See also

References
  1. Ende at Ethnologue (22nd ed., 2019) Closed access icon
  2. McDonnell, Bradley (2009). "A Preliminary Description of Ende Phonology" (PDF). Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. 2: 195–226.
  3. Elias, Alexander (2019). Lio and the Central Flores languages (M.A. thesis). Leiden University. hdl:1887/69452.
  4. Elias, Alexander (2020). "Are the Central Flores languages really typologically unusual?". Berkeley: University of California.
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