Mamasa language
Mamasa is an Austronesian language of Sulawesi, Indonesia.
| Mamasa | |
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| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sulawesi |
Native speakers | (100,000 cited 1991)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mqj |
| Glottolog | mama1276 |
Dialects
Three dialects can be distinguished:[2]
- Northern Mamasa
- Central Mamasa
- Pattae'
Speakers of Pattae' are a culturally distinct ethnic group traditionally more affiliated to the Mandar people than to speakers of the Northern and Central Mamasa dialects in the interior, and for that reason Pattae' is considered by its speakers to be a language separate from Mamasa proper (i.e. Northern and Central Mamasa).
Phonology
Mamasa has the following consonants and vowels:[3]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voice | b | d | g | |||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Nasals | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Trills | r | |||||
| Semivowels | w | y | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
References
- Mamasa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- "The Mamasa Language". Sulawesi Language Alliance. Retrieved 14 Dec 2017.
- Smith, Beverly Kean (1993), A phonological reconstruction of Proto-Pitu Ulunna Salu, OCLC 840034799
Further reading
- Matti, David F. (1991). "Phonology of Mamasa" (PDF). In Rene van den Berg (ed.). Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures (PDF). 12, Sulawesi phonologies. Ujung Pandang, Sulawesi: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 53–97. ISBN 979-8132-85-8.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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