Melanau language
Melanau is an Austronesian language spoken in the coastal area of the Rajang delta on northwest Borneo, Sarawak, Malaysia and Brunei. There are several dialects—Mukah-Oya, Balingian, Bruit, Dalat, Igan, Sarikei, Segahan, Prehan, Segalang, and Siteng.[4]
Melanau | |
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Central Melanau | |
Native to | Malaysia, Brunei |
Region | Sarawak and neighbouring Brunei |
Ethnicity | Melanau people |
Native speakers | 110,000 (2000)[1] |
Austronesian
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | Either:mel – Central Melanausdx – Sibu Melanau |
Glottolog | cent2101 Central[2]sibu1258 Sibu[3] |
Phonology
Consonants
Melanau has the following consonants.[5]
Bilabial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
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Stops and affricates |
Voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ | |
Voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | |||
Fricatives | s | h, hʲ | |||||
Nasals | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |||
Lateral | l | ||||||
Trills | r | ʀ | |||||
Semivowels | w | j |
Notes
- Central Melanau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Sibu Melanau at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Central Melanau". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Sibu Melanau". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Raymond G. Gordon Jr., ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
- Clayre 1970.
gollark: Those are another type of apiopyrohazard.
gollark: Well, "pyro" is general, it could be flaming or just fire-related-somehow or oddly warm bees.
gollark: Hazardous flammable bees.
gollark: Expose a man to apiopyrohazards and you will also keep him conveniently warm.
gollark: > Give a spider a fly, and you are considered a god. A man who feeds the less fortunate. Teach a spider to fly and suddenly you are Satan.
References
- I.F.C.S. Clayre. 1970. "The Spelling of Melanau (nee Milano)," The Sarawak Museum Journal 18:330-352.
- Rensch, Calvin R. 2012. Melanau and the Languages of Central Sarawak. SIL Electronic Survey Report. SIL International.
External links
- Kaipuleohone holds two open access collections that include Balingian language materials (RB1-002 and RB2-003-E) as well as notebook pages of stories
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