David Gil | |
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Born | 1 November 1953 |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Linguist |
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Alma mater | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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Institutions | Max Planck Institute |
David Gil (born 1 November 1953 in London,United Kingdom) is a linguist specializing in Indonesian and Malay linguistics. His research interests include Malayic comparative linguistics,syntax,semantics,linguistic typology,and language evolution. [1]
In 1972,he received a B.A. in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He completed his master's degree in linguistics in 1978 at the University of Tel Aviv. In 1982,he defended his PhD thesis Distributive Numerals at the University of California,Los Angeles. [2]
Gil regularly organises academic conferences on the languages of Indonesia,such as the International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL),International Symposium on the Languages of Java (ISLOJ),and Workshop on the Languages of Papua (WLP). [3]
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory,as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 475,807.63 km2 (182,812 mi.2),including adjacent islands such as the Simeulue,Nias,Mentawai,Enggano,Riau Islands,Bangka Belitung and Krakatoa archipelago.
Indonesian is the official and national language of Indonesia. It is a standardized variety of Malay,an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world,with over 279 million inhabitants of which the majority speak Indonesian,which makes it one of the most widely spoken languages in the world. Indonesian vocabulary has been influenced by various languages,including Javanese,Minangkabau,Buginese,Banjarese,Arabic,Dutch,and English. Many borrowed words have been adapted to fit the phonetic and grammatical rules of Indonesian.
Malay is an Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei,Indonesia,Malaysia,and Singapore,and that is also spoken in East Timor and parts of Thailand. Altogether,it is spoken by 290 million people across Maritime Southeast Asia.
Riau is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the central eastern coast of Sumatra along the Strait of Malacca. The province shares land borders with North Sumatra to the northwest,West Sumatra to the west,and Jambi to the south,and a maritime border with the Riau Islands and the country of Malaysia to the east. It is the second-largest province in the island of Sumatra after South Sumatra,and is slightly larger than Jordan. According to the 2020 census,Riau had a population of 6,394,087 across a land area of 89,935.90 km²;the official estimate of population as of mid-2022 was 6,614,384. The province comprises ten regencies and two cities,with Pekanbaru serving as the capital and largest city.
Minangkabau is an Austronesian language spoken by the Minangkabau of West Sumatra,the western part of Riau,South Aceh Regency,the northern part of Bengkulu and Jambi,also in several cities throughout Indonesia by migrated Minangkabau. The language is also a lingua franca along the western coastal region of the province of North Sumatra,and is even used in parts of Aceh,where the language is called Aneuk Jamee.
The Riau Islands is a province of Indonesia - not to be confused with neighbouring Riau Province from which the islands were separated in 2002. The capital of the province is Tanjung Pinang and the largest city is Batam. It shares a maritime border with Riau and Jambi to the east,Bangka Belitung Islands to the south,Singapore to the northeast,Malaysia and West Kalimantan to the west,and Vietnam and Cambodia to the north.It comprises a total of 1,796 islands scattered between Sumatra,Malay Peninsula,and Borneo including the Riau Archipelago. Situated on one of the world's busiest shipping lanes along the Malacca Strait and the Natuna Sea,the province shares water borders with neighboring countries such as Singapore,Malaysia,and Brunei. The Riau Islands also have relatively large potential mineral resources and energy,as well as marine resources.
The term Proto-Malay,primeval Malays,proto-Hesperonesians,first-wave Hesperonesians or primeval Hesperonesians,which translates to Melayu Asli or Melayu Purba or Melayu Tua,refers to Austronesian speakers who moved from mainland Asia,to the Malay peninsula and Malay archipelago in a long series of migrations between 2500 and 1500 BC,before that of the Deutero-Malays about a thousand years later. The Proto-Malays are descendants of the first humans living in Southeast Asia,and are "ancestral" for humans in east Asia and the Americas.
The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The most prominent member is Malay,which is the national language of Brunei,Singapore and Malaysia,and is the basis for Indonesian,the national language of Indonesia. The Malayic branch also includes the local languages spoken by ethnic Malays,further several languages spoken by various other ethnic groups of Sumatra,Indonesia and Borneo. The most probable candidate for the urheimat of the Malayic languages is western Borneo.
Betawi,also known as Betawi Malay,Jakartan Malay,or Batavian Malay is the spoken language of the Betawi people in Jakarta,Indonesia. It is the native language of perhaps 5 million people;a precise number is difficult to determine due to the vague use of the name.
Sri Lankan Malay is a creole language spoken in Sri Lanka,formed as a mixture of Sinhala and Shonam,with Malay being the major lexifier. It is traditionally spoken by the Sri Lankan Malays and among some Sinhalese in Hambantota. Today,the number of speakers of the language have dwindled considerably but it has continued to be spoken notably in the Hambantota District of Southern Sri Lanka,which has traditionally been home to many Sri Lankan Malays.
Malay Indonesians are ethnic Malays living throughout Indonesia. They are one of the indigenous peoples of the country. Indonesian,the national language of Indonesia,is a standardized form of Riau Malay. There were numerous kingdoms associated with the Indonesian Malays along with other ethnicities in what is now Indonesia,mainly on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra. These included Srivijaya,the Melayu Kingdom,Dharmasraya,the Sultanate of Deli,the Sultanate of Siak Sri Indrapura,the Riau-Lingga Sultanate,the Sultanate of Bulungan,Pontianak Sultanate,and the Sultanate of Sambas. The 2010 census states that there are 8 million Malays in Indonesia;this number comes from the classification of Malays in East Sumatra and the coast of Kalimantan which is recognized by the Indonesian government. This classification is different from the Malaysia and Singapore census which includes all ethnic Muslims from the Indonesian archipelago as Malays.
Martin Haspelmath is a German linguist working in the field of linguistic typology. He is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig,where he worked from 1998 to 2015 and again since 2020. Between 2015 and 2020,he worked at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. He is also an honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Leipzig.
The Tibeto-Kanauri languages,also called Bodic,Bodish–Himalayish,and Western Tibeto-Burman,are a proposed intermediate level of classification of the Sino-Tibetan languages,centered on the Tibetic languages and the Kinnauri dialect cluster. The conception of the relationship,or if it is even a valid group,varies between researchers.
The Malayo-Sumbawan languages are a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian languages that unites the Malayic and Chamic languages with the languages of Java and the western Lesser Sunda Islands,except for Javanese. If valid,it would be the largest demonstrated family of Malayo-Polynesian outside Oceanic. The Malayo-Sumbawan subgroup is however not universally accepted,and is rejected e.g. by Blust (2010) and Smith (2017),who supported the Greater North Borneo and Western Indonesian hypotheses. In a 2019 paper published in Oceanic Linguistics,Adelaar accepted both of these groupings,in addition to Smith's (2018) redefinition of Barito languages as forming a linkage.
Larantuka Malay is a contact variety of Malay spoken in and around the city of Larantuka on the island of Flores in Indonesia,and in two enclaves:the village of Wure on the island of Adonara and four villages on Konga Bay,about 40 kilometers south of Larantuka on Flores,and serves more generally as a lingua franca on the eastern tip of Flores and nearby islands. There are approximately 23,000 native speakers of Larantuka Malay. Second language speakers of Larantuka Malay are primarily found in and around the city of Larantuka and through the eastern part of Flores island,as well as the nearby islands of Adonara,Solor and Lembata (Lomblen),and natively speak Lamaholot or other languages closely related to Lamaholot,which,until recently,were believed to be dialects of Lamaholot.
Ternate is a language of northern Maluku,eastern Indonesia. It is spoken by the Ternate people,who inhabit the island of Ternate,as well as many other areas of the archipelago. It is the dominant indigenous language of North Maluku,historically important as a regional lingua franca. A North Halmahera language,it is unlike most languages of Indonesia which belong to the Austronesian language family.
Morori is a moribund Papuan language of the Kolopom branch of the Trans–New Guinea family. It is separated from the other Kolopom languages by the intrusive Marind family. All speakers use Papuan Malay or Indonesian as L2,and many know Marind.
This article explains the phonology of Malay and Indonesian based on the pronunciation of Standard Malay,which is the official language of Brunei,Singapore and Malaysia,and Indonesian,which is the official language of Indonesia and a working language in Timor Leste. There are two main standards for Malay pronunciation,the Johor-Riau standard,used in Brunei and Malaysia,and the Baku,used in Indonesia and Singapore.
Riau-Lingga Sultanate,also known as the Lingga-Riau Sultanate,Riau Sultanate or Lingga Sultanate was a Malay sultanate that existed from 1824 to 1911,before being dissolved following Dutch intervention.
The Moklenic or Moken–Moklen languages consist of a pair of two closely related but distinct languages,namely Moken and Moklen. Larish (1999) establishes the two languages as forming two distinct subgroups of a larger Moken–Moklen branch. Larish (2005) suggests Moklenic as an alternative name for Moken–Moklen,the latter term which was originally used by Larish (1999).