Tarangan language
Tarangan is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands in eastern Indonesia. There are two varieties of Tarangan: East and West Tarangan. These varieties are divergent, perhaps no closer than they are to Manombai, also spoken in the Arus. West Tarangan is a trade language of the southern islands.
Phonology
The following is the description for West Tarangan:Consonants
- can occur as a glottal intervocalically between two non-high vowels.
- is heard as a stop syllable-final position.
- are heard as voiced stops in word-initial position and within a stressed noninitial syllable onset.
Vowels
- in unstressed positions are heard as .
- Sounds are phonetically.