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]
Ende | |
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Native to | Indonesia |
Region | central Flores |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2009)[1] |
Austronesian
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Lontara script (Lota Ende variant) | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | end |
Glottolog | ende1246 |
Ende | |
Coordinates: 8°43′S 121°34′E / 8.71°S 121.56°E |
Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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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⟩ |
Like all Central Flores languages, Ende has a highly isolating structure.[4]