Phonemic Sketch of Dohoi/Kadorih : (Austronesian : Upper Reaches of Kahayan River in Kalimantan, Indonesia)

Abstract

This paper provides a description and analysis of the Dohoi/Kadorih sound system which has been depicted only superficially so far (Santoso et al. 1984). First, in §2.1, rules for fronting, prenasalization, and nonrelease will be postulated to explain general allophones. Then, exhibiting (sub-) minimal pairs in several environments, procedures of determining phonemes and allophones (supported by acoustic correlates) follow. Consonant and vowel phonemes will be posited in §2.2-§2.6 and §3 respectively. At the same time, derivations for each allophonic realization will be specified. Distributional deviations of each context-sensitive allophone tell us which segment does not have full status as a phoneme : l; y; β; d, n; e. Diphthong is confirmed by three conditions that define diphthong status, described in §3.2.