Ngaju language
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| Ngaju | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Indonesian | |
| Region: | Kalimantan | |
| Total speakers: | 800,000 | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Barito West Barito South West Barito Ngaju |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | – | |
| ISO 639-3: | nij | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Ngaju is an Austronesian language spoken along the Kapuas, Kahayan, Katingan, and Mentaya Rivers in south Borneo, Indonesia. There are three dialects--Pulopetak, Ba'amang, and Mantangai. [1]
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Consonants
Ngaju has the following consonants. [2]
| Bilabial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | Voiceless | p | t | c | k | |
| Voiced | b | d | ɟ | g | ||
| Fricatives | s | h | ||||
| Nasals | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Semivowels | w | j | ||||
[edit] Vowels
Ngaju has the following vowels. All vowels except ə can be long. [3]
| front | central | back rounded |
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|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Low | a |
[edit] Notes
[edit] References
Ashn E. Johannes. 1971. "An Introduction to Dayak Ngaju Morphology," Malang MA thesis.
T.W.J. Mihing & W.A.L. Stokhof. 1977. "On the Ngaju Dayak Sound System," Miscellaneous Studies in Indonesian and Languages in Indonesia 3:49-59.
