Manusela language

Manusela
Manusela
Wahinama
Sou Upaa
Native to	Indonesia (Maluku Islands)
Region	Seram
Ethnicity	Manusela people
Native speakers	(7,000 cited 1989)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Central–Eastern MP Central Maluku East Central Maluku Nunusaku Patakai–Manusela Manusela; ; ; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	wha
Glottolog	manu1258

Manusela is an Austronesian language spoken in Seram, Indonesia. It is classified by Collins (1983) as a member of the Central Maluku subgroup.^[2]

Phonology

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m	n	(ɲ)	(ŋ)
Plosive	p	t		k
Fricative	f	s			h
Rhotic		r
Lateral		l
Semivowel	w		j

[ŋ ɲ] as well as voiced stops [b d ɡ] appear in loanwords from other languages.^[3]

^ Manusela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Collins, James T. (1983). The Historical Relationships of the Languages of Central Maluku, Indonesia. Pacific Linguistics D-47. Canberra: Australian National University. doi:10.15144/PL-D47.
^ Chlenova, Svetlana (2012). Манусела, Язык Центрального Серама: Материалы и Заметки. Victor A. Pogadaev (ed.), Malay-Indonesian Studies (dedicated to the 80th birthday of Vilen Sikorsky): Moscow: Econ-Inform. pp. 128–173.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)

Chlenova, Svetlana (Членова С.Ф.) (2012). "Manusela, yazyk Tsentral'nogo Serama: materialy i zametki" Манусела, язык Центрального Серама: материалы и заметки [Manusela, the language of Central Seram: materials and notes]. In Pogadaev, Victor A. (Погадаев В. А.) (ed.). Малайско-индонезийские исследования (к 80-летию В. В. Сикор-ского)/Malay-Indonesian Studies (dedicated to the 80th birthday of Vilen Sikorsky) (in Russian). Moscow: Econ-Inform. pp. 128–173. ISBN 978-5-9506-0839-1.

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