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Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in Milne Bay Province of Papua New Guinea. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in D'Entrecasteaux Islands.
| Dobu | |
|---|---|
| Dobuan | |
| Native to | Papua New Guinea |
| Region | Milne Bay Province, tip of Cape Vogel |
Native speakers | (10,000 cited 1998)[1] 60% monolingual[1] L2 speakers: 51,000 (2021)[1] |
| Latin script (Dobuan alphabet) Dobuan Braille | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | dob |
| Glottolog | dobu1241 |
Consonants
- Sounds /p, t, k/ may also be aspirated in free variation as [pʰ, tʰ, kʰ] in all environments.
- The lateral flap /ɺ/ may fluctuate with an alveolar vibrant flap [ɾ] depending on the dialect of the speaker.
- /j/ may also fluctuate with a fricative [ʝ] within vocabulary.
Vowels
- /a/ may be heard as [ʌ] in unstressed syllables.
- /ɔ/ may be heard as slightly more centralized [ɔ̽] when following labialized consonants in unstressed positions.
- /u/ may be heard as [ʊ] in unstressed syllables.[2]
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