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Leti is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Leti in Maluku. Although it shares a lot of vocabulary with the neighboring Luang language, and is marginally mutually intelligible. Fewer than 1% of Leti speakers are literate in Leti, though between a quarter and a half are literate in another language. == Varieties == The main dialectological division in Leti is between eastern varieties, spoken in the domains of Laitutun and Luhuleli, and western varieties, spoken in the domains of Batumiau, Tutukei, Tomra, and Nuwewang. This article focusses on the Tutukei variety. Tutukei itself divides into two sociolects, ''lirlèta'' ( Leti also has two literary or ritual varieties, ''lirmarna'' ('royal language') and ''lirasnïara'' ('sung language'). Both of them prominently feature lexical parallelism. Per van Engelenhoven 2004, "the major issue in formal Leti discourse is to keep speaking as long as possible. Indeed, the important element in 'royal speech' is not what is said, but rather how it is said and how long it takes to be said". In particular ''lirmarna'' features formulaic pairs of clauses which are syntactically identical, each pair of corresponding words in the two clauses forming a lexical pair. ''Lirasnïara'' is the sung form of ''lirmarna''. It employs a repertoire of approximately 150 Luangic-Kisaric words with distinctive sound changes: e.g. 'flower' and 'point' are and in ''lirasniara''. Often borrowings from Malay are inserted as well. Again per van Engelenhoven 2004, "in Southwest Malukan society turn-taking in singing is ritualized and as such a fixed strategy, which makes it a powerful rhetoric device in Leti discourse. () () song may not be interrupted when performed. Singing is thus a means to prevent interruption in a speech event or an instrument to surpass the other speech participants". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Leti language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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