Fordata language

Fordata is an Austronesian language spoken in the Tanimbar Islands of the Moluccas. It is closely related to Kei, and more distantly to Yamdena, both also spoken in the Tanimbar Islands.

Phonology

Consonants

Glottal sounds only occur intervocalically.
can often be heard as among younger speakers.
can also be heard in free variation with a flap sound.

Vowels

Sounds have lax sounds of
can have an allophone of when before a consonant, or in word-final position.