| Geser | |
|---|---|
| Geser-Gorom | |
| Native to | Indonesia (Maluku Islands) |
| Region | Seram, Geser Islands |
Native speakers | (37,000 cited 1989)1 |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ges |
| Glottolog | gese1240 |
Geser is an Austronesian language of the east end of Seram and the Gorom Islands, Indonesia. It is closely related to Watubela.34
Phonology
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | (ɲ) | ŋ | ||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | (f) | s | h | |||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
/h/ and /f/ are in free alteration among the dialects of Geser and Gorom.
/ɲ/ rarely occurs.5
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Open | a |
External links
External links
- Geser at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- Grimes, Charles E. & Owen Edwards. 2026. The Austronesian languages of eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste: Unravelling their prehistory and classification. Berlin: Language Science Press.
- Collins, J.T. (1986). "Eastern Seram: a subgrouping argument". In Geraghty, P., Carrington, L. and Wurm, S.A. eds, FOCAL II: Papers from the Fourth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics. C-94:123-146. Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University.
- Loski, Russell A. and Gail M. Loski (1989). "The languages indigenous to Eastern Seram and adjacent islands". In Wyn D. Laidig (ed.), Maluku (Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures, Vol. 6), 103-142. Ambon: Pattimura University and the Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- Chlenova, Svetlana (2010). Заметки о языке гесер-гором с приложением словника и образцов предложений [Notes on Geser-Gorom: Wordlist and a sample of sentences]. In Chlenova, Svetlana and Fedorchuk, Artem (eds.), Studia Anthropologica: a Festschrift in Honor of Michael Chlenov: Moscow/Jerusalem: Moscow-Jerusalem: Gesharim. pp. 360–410.