Doutai (Taori, Tolitai) is a
Lakes Plain language
The Lakes Plain languages are a family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Lakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea. They are notable for being heavily tonal and for their lack of nasal consonants.
Classification
The Lakes Plain languages were tenta ...
of
Irian Jaya,
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
. It is spoken in Toli-Dou village, located southwest of Taiyeve town.
Phonology
Doutai, like
Kirikiri, has the fricativized high vowels iʼ and uʼ. There are 7 vowels in all :
:
References
Lakes Plain languages
Languages of western New Guinea
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