Jahai language
Jahai (Jehai) is an aboriginal Mon–Khmer language spoken by the Jahai people living in Taman Negeri Diraja Belum of Perak, Malaysia. The small number of speakers is increasing.
| Jahai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Malaysia, a few in Thailand |
| Ethnicity | 1,800 (2008)[1] |
Native speakers | 1,000 in Malaysia (2006)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | jhi |
| Glottolog | jeha1242[2] |
Jahai vocabulary includes a series of words for describing odors.[3]
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | h | |||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Rhotic | ɾ~r | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
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See also
References
- Jahai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Jehai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Radboud University Nijmegen."Odors expressible in language, as long as you speak right language." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 3 January 2014. .
Further reading
- Burenhult, Niclas (2005). A Grammar of Jahai (PDF). Pacific linguistics 566. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics, The Australian National University. doi:10.15144/pl-566. hdl:1885/146729. ISBN 0-85883-554-1.
External links
- http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
- http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-6701-4@view Jahai in RWAAI Digital Archive
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