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Vowel Fronting, Raising, And Backing In Luzon And North-Central Sulawesi, Jason William Lobel
Vowel Fronting, Raising, And Backing In Luzon And North-Central Sulawesi, Jason William Lobel
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
This article presents an overview of four shifts – low vowel fronting, low vowel backing, back vowel fronting, and mid vowel raising – found in a number of languages on or near the Pacific coast of Luzon in the Philippines and in north- central Sulawesi in Indonesia. A more extensive illustration of low vowel fronting is given for Umiray Dumaget than has previously been made available, and a second, sporadic correspondence in Umiray Dumaget is shown to be only irregular and unconditioned. Interactions with Philippine-type morphology are also shown to result in synchronically productive alternations in Umiray Dumaget and several …
“Kanala, Tamaaf, Tramkassie, En Stuur Krieslam”; Lexical And Phonological Echoes Of Malay In Cape Town, Tom Hoogervorst
“Kanala, Tamaaf, Tramkassie, En Stuur Krieslam”; Lexical And Phonological Echoes Of Malay In Cape Town, Tom Hoogervorst
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
This article traces a largely forgotten Malay dialect which was historically in use among South African Muslims of Southeast Asian origin. Its use reached its pinnacle in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Some elements of the Cape Malay grammar, especially its phonology, can be reconstructed through early- and mid-twentieth-century documents, most of which were written by outsiders when it was no longer passed on as a first language. When read linguistically, these sources reveal that the Malay of Cape Town resembled that of Batavia, Eastern Indonesia, and Sri Lanka. In a later developmental stage, Cape Malay adopted linguistic features from …
South Borneo As An Ancient Sprachbund Area, Alexander Adelaar
South Borneo As An Ancient Sprachbund Area, Alexander Adelaar
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
In South and Central Kalimantan (southern Borneo) there are some unusual linguistic features shared among languages which are adjacent but do not belong to the same genetic linguistic subgroups. These languages are predominantly Banjar Malay (a Malayic language), Ngaju (a West Barito language), and Ma’anyan (a Southeast Barito language). The same features also appear to some degree in Malagasy, a Southeast Barito language in East Africa. The shared linguistic features are the following ones: a grammaticalized form of the originally Malay noun buah ‘fruit’ expressing affectedness, nasal spreading in which N- not only nasalizes the onset of the first syllable …
The Particle Ma In Old Sundanese, Aditia Gunawan, Evi Fuji Fauziyah
The Particle Ma In Old Sundanese, Aditia Gunawan, Evi Fuji Fauziyah
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
This article will analyse the distribution of the particle ma in Old Sundanese texts. Based on an examination of fifteen Old Sundanese texts (two inscriptions, eight prose texts, and five poems), we have identified 730 occurrences of ma. We have selected several examples which represent the range of its grammatical functions in sentences. Our observations are as follows: (1) ma not only appears in direct dialogues, but also in narrative texts, both prose and verse; (2) ma functions as a copula in nominal sentences, connecting subject and predicate; (3) in conditional clauses containing the conjunction lamun, ma has a function …
From Dugouts To Double Outriggers; Lexical Insights Into The Development Of Swahili Nautical Technology, Martin Walsh
From Dugouts To Double Outriggers; Lexical Insights Into The Development Of Swahili Nautical Technology, Martin Walsh
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
The early history of nautical technology in the western Indian Ocean and adjoining parts of the eastern Africa coast is poorly understood. In the absence of evidence from shipwrecks, it has hitherto been based largely on the uncertain interpretation of a few documentary references and speculation surrounding technological parallels and assumed lexical resemblances. This paper examines some of the linguistic evidence in a more rigorous way, by undertaking a cross-dialectal comparison of names for watercraft and terms for outriggers in Swahili (Kiswahili), a Bantu language spoken on the islands and in scattered communities along the western seaboard of the Indian …
Regular Sound Change; The Evidence Of A Single Example, Alexander Adelaar
Regular Sound Change; The Evidence Of A Single Example, Alexander Adelaar
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
The Neogrammarians of the Leipzig School introduced the principle that sound changes are regular and that this regularity is without exceptions. At least as a working hypothesis, this principle has remained the basis of the comparative method up to this day. In the first part of this paper, I give a short account of how historical linguists have defended this principle and have dealt with apparent counter evidence. In the second part, I explore if a sound change can be regular if it is attested in one instance only. I conclude that it is, provided that the concomitant phonetic (and …
The Malayic-Speaking; Orang Laut Dialects And Directions For Research, Karl Anderbeck
The Malayic-Speaking; Orang Laut Dialects And Directions For Research, Karl Anderbeck
Wacana, Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
Southeast Asia is home to many distinct groups of sea nomads, some of which are known collectively as Orang (Suku) Laut. Those located between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula are all Malayic-speaking. Information about their speech is paltry and scattered; while starting points are provided in publications such as Skeat and Blagden (1906), K hler (1946a, b, 1960), Sopher (1977: 178-180), Kadir et al. (1986), Stokhof (1987), and Collins (1988, 1995), a comprehensive account and description of Malayic Sea Tribe lects has not been provided to date. This study brings together disparate sources, including a bit of original research, to …