Coastal Konjo language
Coastal Konjo is an Austronesian language of Sulawesi, Indonesia, which belongs to the Makassaric branch of the South Sulawesi subgroup. It is spoken along the coast in the southeastern corner of South Sulawesi in the regencies of Sinjai, Bulukumba and Bantaeng.[3][4] It is closely related to, but distinct from Highland Konjo, which also belongs to the Makassaric languages.
| Coastal Konjo | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | South Sulawesi |
Native speakers | (125,000 cited 1990)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kjc |
| Glottolog | coas1295[2] |
Phonology
The following sound inventory is based on Friberg & Friberg (1991).[5]
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive/Affricate | voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Semivowel | j | w | ||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
Only [ŋ] and [ʔ] can appear in final position. Words with underlying final /s/, /l/ or /r/ add an echo vowel, e.g. /nipis/ ['nipisi] 'thin'.
Grammar
Personal pronouns in Coastal Konjo have one independent form, and three bound forms.[6]
| free | ergative | absolutive | possessive | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.sg./1.pl.excl. | nakke | ku- | -a | -ku |
| 1.pl.incl./2.honorific | gitte | ki- | -ki | -ta |
| 2.familiar | kau | nu- | -ko | -mu |
| 3. | ia | na- | -i | -na |
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References
- Coastal Konjo at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Coastal Konjo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Grimes, C. E. and B. E. Grimes (1987). Languages of South Sulawesi. Canberra: Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 0858833522.
- Friberg, T. and T.V. Laskowske (1989). "South Sulawesi languages". In: J.N. Sneddon (ed.), Studies in Sulawesi linguistics part 1, pp. 1-17. Jakarta: Badan Penyelenggara Seri Nusa.
- Friberg, Barbara and Friberg, Timothy (1991). Notes on Konjo phonology. In James N. Sneddon (ed.), Studies in Sulawesi linguistics, part II, 71-115. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya.
- Friberg, Barbara (1996). "Konjo's peripatetic person markers". In Hein Steinhauer (ed.). Papers in Austronesian Linguistics No. 3. Canberra: Australian National University. pp. 137–171.
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