Ot Danum language

Ot Danum is a Barito language of the central Borneo, Indonesia, spoken by the Ot Danum people. Dialects include Cihie and Dohoi.

Ot Danum
Dohoi
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Kalimantan
Ethnicity	Ot Danum people
Native speakers	79,000 (2007)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian West Barito North Ot Danum
Language codes
ISO 639-3	otd
Glottolog	otda1235

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	(Alveolo-) palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	t͡ɕ	k
	voiced	b	d	d͡ʑ	g
Fricative		β	(s)	ɕ		h
Rhotic	trill		r
	tap		ɾ
Approximant				j

• /ɕ/ may also be heard as [s] in free variation. In word-final position, it can be approximantized as [ɕ̞].
• /ɾ/ can be heard as [l] in word-final position.
• Prenasalization is said to also occur among voiced stops /b, d, d͡ʑ, ɡ/ in word-initial and intervocalic positions as [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᶮd͡ʑ, ᵑɡ].
• Stop sounds /p, t, k/ in word-final position are heard as unreleased [p̚, t̚, k̚].
• /h/ is heard as labialized [hʷ] when occurring anywhere within the position of /u/, and heard as a fronted velar [x̟] when occurring in the position of /i/.

Consonant fronting

Consonant fronting as well as laminalizing occurs among the following consonants when anywhere within the position of /i/. The allophones are heard as following:

Phoneme	Allophone
/t/	[t̪]
/d/	[ⁿ̪d̪], [d̪]
/n/	[n̪]
/r/	[r̪]
/ɾ/	[ɾ̪]
/nd/	[n̪d̪]
/t͡ɕ/	[t͡ɕ̻]
/d͡ʑ/	[ᶮ̻d͡ʑ̻], [d͡ʑ̻]
/ɕ/	[ɕ̻]
/ɲ/	[ɲ̻]
/j/	[j̟]
/k/	[k̟]
/ɡ/	[ᵑ̟ɡ̟], [ɡ̟]
/ŋ/	[ŋ̟]
/h/	[x̟]

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

• /a/ can also be heard as [ɐ] in free variation.
• /i, u/ are heard as [ɪ, ʊ] when preceding a vowel.