Kula (Kola) or Lamtoka (Lantoka), also known as Tanglapui, is a
Papuan language
The Papuan languages are the non-Austronesian languages spoken on the western Pacific island of New Guinea, as well as neighbouring islands in Indonesia, Solomon Islands, and East Timor. It is a strictly geographical grouping, and does not imply a ...
spoken in villages on the north coast, south coast and mountainous interior of
Alor Island in
Indonesia
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. Dialects are Kula proper, Kulatela, Watena, Kula Watena, Iramang, Larena, Sumang, and Arumaka. Most settlements where Kula is spoken are "new villages" that have only been inhabited since the 1960s. Due to this recent resettlement, and since usage of the language is discouraged in schools, Kula is an endangered language.
Phonology
The data in this section are taken from Williams (2017).
Phonemes in brackets are "marginal phonemes".
Consonants
Vowels
References
External links
* ELAR archive o
Documenting Language and Interaction in Kula
Tanglapui languages
Languages of Indonesia
Endangered languages of Indonesia
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