title: Ot Danum language
text: # Ot Danum language
  
  Ot Danum is a Barito language of the central Borneo, Indonesia, spoken by the Ot Danum people. Dialects include Cihie and Dohoi.
  
  ## Phonology
  
  ### Consonants
  
  | | | Labial | Alveolar | (Alveolo-) palatal | Velar | Glottal |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | Nasal | Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
  | Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | t͡ɕ | k | |
  | Plosive/ Affricate | voiced | b | d | d͡ʑ | g | |
  | Fricative | Fricative | β | (s) | ɕ | | h |
  | Rhotic | trill | | r | | | |
  | Rhotic | tap | | ɾ | | | |
  | Approximant | Approximant | | | j | | |
  
  * /ɕ/ may also be heard as [s] in free variation. In word-final position, it can be approximantized as [ɕ̞].
  * /ɾ/ can be heard as [l] in word-final position.
  * Prenasalization is said to also occur among voiced stops /b, d, d͡ʑ, ɡ/ in word-initial and intervocalic positions as [ᵐb, ⁿd, ᶮd͡ʑ, ᵑɡ].
  * Stop sounds /p, t, k/ in word-final position are heard as unreleased [p̚, t̚, k̚].
  * /h/ is heard as labialized [hʷ] when occurring anywhere within the position of /u/, and heard as a fronted velar [x̟] when occurring in the position of /i/.
  
  ### Consonant fronting
  
  Consonant fronting as well as laminalizing occurs among the following consonants when anywhere within the position of /i/. The allophones are heard as following:
  
  | Phoneme | Allophone |
  | - | - |
  | /t/ | [t̪] |
  | /d/ | [ⁿ̪d̪], [d̪] |
  | /n/ | [n̪] |
  | /r/ | [r̪] |
  | /ɾ/ | [ɾ̪] |
  | /nd/ | [n̪d̪] |
  | /t͡ɕ/ | [t͡ɕ̻] |
  | /d͡ʑ/ | [ᶮ̻d͡ʑ̻], [d͡ʑ̻] |
  | /ɕ/ | [ɕ̻] |
  | /ɲ/ | [ɲ̻] |
  | /j/ | [j̟] |
  | /k/ | [k̟] |
  | /ɡ/ | [ᵑ̟ɡ̟], [ɡ̟] |
  | /ŋ/ | [ŋ̟] |
  | /h/ | [x̟] |
  
  ### Vowels
  
  | | Front | Central | Back |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | Close | i | | u |
  | Mid | e | | o |
  | Open | | a | |
  
  * /a/ can also be heard as [ɐ] in free variation.
  * /i, u/ are heard as [ɪ, ʊ] when preceding a vowel.
  