Dobu or Dobuan is an Austronesian language spoken in

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. It is a lingua franca for 100,000 people in

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Phonology

Consonants

* Sounds /p, t, k/ may also be aspirated in free variation as ʰ, tʰ, kʰin all environments. * The lateral flap /ɺ/ may fluctuate with an alveolar vibrant flap �depending on the dialect of the speaker. * /j/ may also fluctuate with a fricative �within vocabulary.

Vowels

* /a/ may be heard as �in unstressed syllables. * /ɔ/ may be heard as slightly more centralized �̽when following labialized consonants in unstressed positions. * /u/ may be heard as �in unstressed syllables.

External links

An open access collection of singing in Dobu
is available through

Paradisec The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) is a cross-institutional project that supports work on endangered languages and cultures of the Pacific and the region around Australia. They digitise reel-to ...

. * Historical open access collections of recordings in Dobu are available through

, including the Malcome Ross collection
MR1
and two Arthur Campbell collections
AC1
an
AC2

References

Nuclear Papuan Tip languages Languages of Milne Bay Province D'Entrecasteaux Islands {{PapuanTip-lang-stub