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Tarangan is one of the Aru languages, spoken by inhabitants of the Aru Islands in eastern Indonesia. There are two varieties of Tarangan: East and West Tarangan. These varieties are divergent, perhaps no closer than they are to Manombai, also spoken in the Arus. West Tarangan is a trade language of the southern islands.

Phonology

The following is the description for West Tarangan:

Consonants

• /k/ can occur as a glottal [ʔ] intervocalically between two non-high vowels.
• /ɸ/ is heard as a stop [p] syllable-final position.
• /w j/ are heard as voiced stops in word-initial position and within a stressed noninitial syllable onset.

Vowels

• /a i/ in unstressed positions are heard as .
• Sounds /e o/ are phonetically .

References

1. East Tarangan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
   West Tarangan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Hughes, Jock (1987). "The languages of Kei, Tanimbar and Aru: Lexicostatistic classification" (PDF). In Soenjono Dardjowidjojo (ed.). Miscellaneous studies of Indonesian and other languages in Indonesia, part 9. NUSA 27. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya. pp. 71–111.
3. ^ Nivens, Richard (1992). "A Lexical Phonology of West Tarangan". Phonological Studies in Four Languages of Maluku. Summer Institute of Linguistics and the University of Texas at Arlington.

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