Komering language
Komering is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Indonesia, in the southern part of Sumatra.
| Komering | |
|---|---|
| Cawa Komering | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sumatra |
| Ethnicity | Komering people |
Native speakers | 470,000 (2000 census)[1] |
| Lampung script (past) Latin (present) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kge |
| Glottolog | kome1238 |
Three Komering girls in 1929
Location
Komering in the Lampung Province in southern Sumatra, along the Komering River.
Classification
Komering belongs to the group of Lampung languages, one of the groups within the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family.[2] Walker regards Komering as a mere dialect, presenting Lampung as a single language instead of a group of languages;[3] others treat it as a dialect specifically of Lampung Api.
Vocabulary
Examples of basic Komering words:[4]
| English | Komering | Indonesian/Malay |
|---|---|---|
| tree | kayu | kayu ("wood") |
| ashes | habu | abu |
| world | tanoh | tanah |
| grass | jukuk | rumput |
| egg | hatolui | telur |
| three | tolu | tiga |
| five | lima | lima |
| rain | hujau | hujan |
| to steal | hambur | hambur ("to waste") |
| egg | tohlui | telur |
| four | pak | empat |
| now | ganta | sekarang |
Notes and references
- Komering at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Adelaar, 2005, p. 22.
- Walker, 1976, p. 1.
- From Walker, 1975, pp. 14-17.
Sources
- Adelaar, Alexander, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar: A Historical Perspective, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, pp. 1–42, Routledge Language Family Series, Londres, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-7007-1286-0
- Walker, Dale F., A Lexical Study of Lampung Dialects, Miscellaneous Studies in Indonesian and Languages in Indonesia, Part I (editor: John W. M. Verhaar), NUSA Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages of Indonesia, Volume 1, pp. 11–21, Jakarta, Badan Penyelenggara Seri NUSA, 1975.
- Walker, Dale F., A Grammar of the Lampung Language: the Pesisir Dialect of Way Lima, NUSA Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages of Indonesia, Volume 2, Jakarta, Badan Penyelenggara Seri NUSA, 1976.
- Sofjan Abdurrahman, and Colin Yallop. A Brief Outline of Komering Phonology and Morphology, Miscellaneous studies in Indonesian and languages in Indonesia, Part VI (editor: Amran Halim), NUSA Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages of Indonesia, Volume 7, pp. 11-18, Jakarta, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, 1979.
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