Berau Malay
Berau Malay | |
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basa Barrau, basa Banua | |
Native to | Indonesia |
Ethnicity | Berau |
Native speakers | 11,000 (2007)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | bve |
Glottolog | bera1262 |
Berau Malay, or just Berau, is an Malayic language which is spoken by Berau Malays in Berau Regency, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is one three native Malayic varieties in southern and eastern Borneo along with Banjar and Kutai, of which it forms a dialect continuum.
According to the 2007 edition of Ethnologue there are 11,200 speakers of Berau Malay. This language has received little attention by foreign linguists. According to James T. Collins in 2006, Berau is characterized by loss of glottal consonants *ʔ and *h, and the sequence *-əC- became into -aCC (also shared by Makassarese). The latter change has created contrastive gemination in the language, such as tabu "mosque drum" vs. tabbu "sugar cane" (← *təbu) and ini "this" vs. inni "grandparent".[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Berau Malay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Collins, James T. (2006). "The Malayic variants of eastern Borneo". In Schulze, Fritz; Warnk, Holger (eds.). Insular Southeast Asia: Linguistic and cultural studies in Honour of Bernd Nothofer. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. p. 37–51.
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