Kanowit language
The Kanowit language, also called Serau Tet Kanowit (language of the Kanowit people), is an Austronesian language spoken in Sarawak, Malaysia on the island of Borneo. It is mutually intelligible with the Tanjong (alternatively spelled Tanjung) language, which is spoken even farther upriver near the town of Kapit. Tanjong may be a separate language from Kanowit; however, both languages currently share the denomination kxn in ISO 639-3.[3] Kanowit is primarily spoken in Kampung Bedil, a village located approximately one mile up the Rajang River from Kanowit Town.[4]
| Kanowit | |
|---|---|
| Tanjong | |
| Native to | Malaysia, Brunei |
| Region | Sarawak and neighboring Brunei |
| Ethnicity | Melanau people |
Native speakers | 200 (2000)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kxn |
| Glottolog | kano1244[2] |
Vocabulary
Some Kanowit vocabulary translated into English:[5]
| Kanowit | English |
|---|---|
| bahah | 'husked rice', 'seed' |
| balak | 'banana' |
| buyaʔ | 'because' |
| kapan | 'thick' |
| kəbeh | 'die' |
| lakəy | 'old (age)' |
| mañit | 'sharp' |
| məlut | 'sleep' |
| mərəw | 'woman' |
| musuŋ | 'lips', 'beak' |
| nəlabaw | 'ask' |
| ñaga | 'to fry' |
| pəloʔon | 'ten' |
| sak | 'red', 'ripe' |
| sidəp | 'aflame' |
| supat | 'swollen' |
| təjalaŋ | 'rhinoceros hornbill' |
| tənawan | 'person' |
| tigah | 'straight' |
| ubaʔ | 'word' |
| ubəl | 'mute' |
gollark: Evolutionary fitness is also not the same as physical fitness.
gollark: That's plausible I guess, but it's possible that many of those could have been avoided (and your definition would count this as "fitness", even). I'm pretty sure it's still less common than, well, other day to day bad things.
gollark: Are those *common*? I don't think I know anyone who's actually experienced any of those. Except maybe animals, very broadly.
gollark: I mean, most common bad situations are going to be along the lines of "someone was rude to me at work" or "my car broke down", not "I must run away from a thing very fast" or "I have to lift a several hundred kilogram object for some reason".
gollark: That definition seems pretty orthogonal to actual common meanings.
References
- Kanowit at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kanowit-Tanjong Melanau". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- "Kanowit-Tanjong". The Endangered Languages Project. 2016. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
- Smith, Alexander D. (2017). The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii at Manoa. p. 13.
- Smith, Alexander D. (2017). The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii at Manoa. pp. 98, 102, 104–109, 296, 298, 301, 303, 305.
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