Select languages to compare:

Use base consonants only
View positions
Labial
Coronal
Dorsal
Radical
Laryngeal
Bilabial
Labio-dental
Dental
Alveolar
Palato-alveolar
Retroflex
Palatal
Velar
Uvular
Pharyngeal
Epi-glottal
Glottal
Plosive
p b         *t *d             k      
 
 
 
 
ʔ
 
Nasal
  m           *n                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
Trill
              *r            
 
 
   
 
 
   
 
 
Tap, Flap
                                               
Lateral flap
 
 
 
 
                   
 
 
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
Fricative
    f                                       h  
Sibilant fricatives
            *s                      
 
 
 
 
 
 
Lateral fricative
 
 
 
 
                           
 
 
 
 
 
 
Approximant
                              w                
Lateral approximant
 
 
 
 
      *l                    
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Front
Near-front
Central
Near-back
Back
 
Close
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open
Selected languages: Tetun
UPSID number: 2437
Alternate name(s): N/A
Classification: Austro-Tai, Central Malayo-Polynesian
The languages has 19 segments
Frequency index: N/A
Sounds:
Comments:

Tetun is spoken on the island of Timor around
Dili and in two separate areas to the east and west.
Morris (1984) is a linguistically unsophisticated source
with some especially confusing remarks about vowel
sequences. More sequences occur in the dictionary than are
listed in the introduction; probably all pairs of vowels
occur. /w/ might be analyzed as a prevocalic variant of
/u/, as Morris proposes, but there is no parallel to this
with /i/. Stress is normally penultimate except a few
items stressed on the final syllable.

Sources:

Morris, Cliff. 1984. Tetun-English Dictionary. Pacific
Linguistics Series C, no. 83. Australian National
University, Canberra.