Tabaru is a North Halmahera language of Indonesia.
Phonology
Vowels Tabaru has a simple five vowel system: a, e, i, o, u.
Consonants Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal Nasal Plosive voiceless voiced Fricative Semivowel Lateral Trill
Syllable structure and stress On the surface level, Tabaru only allows syllables of the type (C)V. Words with an underlying final consonant add an echo vowel: (/ngowak/) ′child′, (/oker/) ′drink′, (/sarim/) ′paddle′, (/odom/) ′eat′, (/palus/) ′answer′. The echo vowel is dropped when a suffix is added: (/woisen/) ′hear′, but (/woisen/ + /oka/) ′heard′. Stress regularly falls on the penultimate syllable, but shifts to the antepenultimate when the word takes an echo vowel.
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