West Damar language
West Damar, or North Damar, is an Austronesian language of Damar Island, one of the Maluku Islands of Indonesia. In spite of rather low cognacy rates with its neighboring languages,[3] it can be classified as part of the Babar languages based on qualitative evidence.[4]
| West Damar | |
|---|---|
| North Damar | |
| Damar Batumerah | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Maluku Islands |
Native speakers | (800 cited 1987)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | drn |
| Glottolog | west2548[2] |
It is only spoken in the village of Batumerah[5], located on the north-western part of Damar.
Vocabulary
Vocabulary list:[5]
| West Damar | Indonesian | English |
|---|---|---|
| odo | saya | I |
| ede | engkau | you (sing.) |
| idi | dia | he, she |
| itito | kita | we (incl.) |
| odomo | kami | we (exc.) |
| edmi | kamu | you (pl.) |
| idiro | mereka | they |
| mehno | satu | one |
| wyeru | dua | two |
| wyetteli | tiga | three |
| wyoto | empat | four |
| wilimo | lima | five |
| wyenamo | enam | six |
| witi | tujuh | seven |
| way | delapan | eight |
| wisi | sembilan | nine |
| uswuti | sepuluh | ten |
| ulkona | kepala | head |
| lima | tangan | hand |
| eya | kaki | foot |
Sample Sentences
Ede mpondai? - Are you ill?
E’e, odo ulkonacheni nchepondo - Yes, I have a headache
Wohleyo Binayani idihe hulchupondeheti wohleyo Ahehendini - The mountain Binaya is the highest at the Seram island
See also
References
- West Damar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "West Damar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Mark Taber. 1993. Toward a better understanding of the Indigenous Languages of Southwestern Maluku. Oceanic Linguistics 32. 389-441.
- Aone van Engelenhoven. 2010. Tentatively locating West-Damar among the languages of Southwest Maluku. In Chlenova, Svetlana and Fedorchuk, Artem (eds.), Studia Anthropologica: a Festschrift in Honor of Michael Chlenov, 297-326. Moscow-Jerusalem: Gesharim.
- "West Damar Language or Damar-Batumerah, an Isolate in South-Eastern Indonesia" (PDF). web.archive.org. 2015-05-12. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
Further reading
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