Doutai Language
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Doutai (Taori, Tolitai) is a
Lakes Plain language The Lakes Plain languages are a family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Lakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea. They are notable for being heavily tonal and for their lack of nasal consonants. Classification The Lakes Plain languages were tenta ...
of Irian Jaya,
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
. It is spoken in Toli-Dou village, located southwest of Taiyeve town.


Phonology

Doutai, like Kirikiri, has the fricativized high vowels iʼ and uʼ. There are 7 vowels in all : :


References

Lakes Plain languages Languages of western New Guinea {{papuan-lang-stub