Semelai language
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| Semelai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Malaysia |
| Region | Malay Peninsula |
| Ethnicity | 6,300 (2008)[1] |
Native speakers | 4,100 (2009)[1] |
| Latin script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sza |
| Glottolog | seme1247[2] |
Semelai is an Austroasiatic language spoken in the Malay Peninsula. It belongs to the Southern branch of the Aslian language subgrouping. The Semelai reside predominantly around the Bera, Serting and associated river systems in the states of Pahang, Negeri Sembilan and Johor.
Phonology[edit]
Semelai has 32 consonants and 20 vowels.[3]
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | aspirated | preglottalized | plain | aspirated | preglottalized | plain | aspirated | preglottalized | plain | aspirated | |||
| Stop | voiceless | p | pʰ | t | tʰ | c | cʰ | k | kʰ | ʔ | |||
| voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | |||||||||
| Fricative | s | h | |||||||||||
| Nasal | voiceless | m̥ | n̥ | ŋ̊ | |||||||||
| voiced | m | ʔm | n | ʔn | ɲ | ʔɲ | ŋ | ||||||
| Approximant | l | ʔl | j | ʔj | w | ||||||||
| Trill | r | ʔr | |||||||||||
Notes[edit]
- ^ a b Semelai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Semelai". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Kruspe (2004)
References[edit]
- Hoe, Ban Seng (2001). Baer, Adela S.; Gianno, Rosemary (eds.). Semelai Communities at Tasek Bera: A Study of the Structure of an Orang Asli Society. Subang Jaya, Malaysia: Centre for Orang Asli Concerns. ISBN 983-40042-3-0.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Kruspe, Nicole (2004). A Grammar of Semelai. Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81497-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
- Kruspe, Nicole (2004). "Adjectives in Semelai". In Dixon, R. M. W.; A. Y. Aikhenvald (eds.). Adjective Classes: a cross-linguistic typology. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 283–305.
External links[edit]
- http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
- http://hdl.handle.net/10050/00-0000-0000-0003-66E3-8@view Semelai in RWAAI Digital Archive
