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 • can occur as a glottal intervocalically between two non-high vowels. • is heard as a stop syllable-final position. • are heard as voiced stops [ ] in word-initial position and within a stressed noninitial syllable onset. Vowels • in unstressed positions are heard as [ ]. • Sounds are phonetically . ==References==