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Tabaru is a North Halmahera language of Indonesia.

Tabaru
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Halmahera
Native speakers	(15,000 cited 1991)[1]
Language family	West Papuan North Halmahera Galela–Tobelo Tabaru
Language codes
ISO 639-3	tby
Glottolog	taba1263

Phonology

Vowels

Tabaru has a simple five vowel system: a, e, i, o, u.[2]

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t	c	k
	voiced	b	d	ɟ	ɡ
Fricative		f	s			h
Semivowel				j	w
Lateral			l
Trill			r

Syllable structure and stress

On the surface level, Tabaru only allows syllables of the type (C)V. Words with an underlying final consonant add an echo vowel: ngówaka (/ngowak/) ′child′, ókere (/oker/) ′drink′, sárimi (/sarim/) ′paddle′, ódomo (/odom/) ′eat′, pálusu (/palus/) ′answer′. The echo vowel is dropped when a suffix is added: woísene (/woisen/) ′hear′, but woisenoka (/woisen/ + /oka/) ′heard′. Stress regularly falls on the penultimate syllable, but shifts to the antepenultimate when the word takes an echo vowel.[3]^: 163

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