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Yotoga [YTG]
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Yotoga
bahasa Yotuka
[bahasa jotuka]
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 14 October 2020
Language type A posteriori
Place & SpeakersYotoga is spoken by a population of 8,600 .
Species Human/humanoid
About Yotoga Yotoga is a Papuan language spoken by about 8,600 people on the northern end of the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. A member of the North Halmahera language family, it is related to the Ternate and Tidore languages, the former of which has influenced Yotoga through the Ternate Sultanate. The language also has lexical influence from Indonesian/Malay (the current official language), English (a global language) and Dutch (their former colonial language), as well as small-scale metatypy from surrounding Austronesian languages. The earliest speakers of Yotoga migrated from northern Halmahera in the Maluku Islands to the northern tip of Sulawesi.

UNDER RENOVATION! Orthography article and translations updated. Grammar article is OOD until further notice. Lexicon here until I port it later.


Yotoga, at the western end of the map, within the West Papuan sprachbund.


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Yotoga is the 2022 Hashi winner for Best A Posteriori!!
Sample of Yotoga[view] tabicara obahasa Yotuka

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Language family relationships
Language treeNorth Halmahera
 ⤷ North Halmahera
  ⤷ Core Halmahera
   ⤷  Yotoga
[view] About North HalmaheraThe North Halmahera languages are a language family spoken on the island of Halmahera and neighboring islands in the Malukus, in southeast Indonesia. Because they are a non-Austronesian language family of maritime southeast Asia and Oceania, they are...
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
AlveolarPost-
Alveolar
PalatalLabio-
velar
VelarGlottal
Nasal m   n   ɲ   ŋ  
Plosive p b   t d̺ d̻       k g ʔ
Fricative   f s         h
Affricate       t͡ʃ d͡ʒ        
Approximant         j w    
Flap     ɾ          
VowelsFrontCentralBack
Close i   u
Close-mid     o
Mid   ə  
Open a    
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Yotoga. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 YotogaOrthography [edit]
'/ʔ/Aa/a/Bb/b/Cc/t͡ʃ/Dd/d̺/Ḋḋ/d̻/Ee/ə/Ff/f/Gg/g/
Hh/h/Ii/i/Jj/d͡ʒ/Kk/k/Mm/m/Nn/n/NG ng/ŋ/NY ny/ɲ/Oo/o/
Pp/p/Rr/ɾ/Ss/s/Tt/t/Uu/u/Ww/w/Yy/j/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
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    Typological information for Yotoga

    Phonemic vowel lengthShort/Long
    Marked transitivity (verb)None
    Script typeAlphabet

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