Haloban language

Haloban
The cover book titled Kamus Bahasa Haloban (lit. 'Haloban Language Dictionary'), published in 2016.
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Aceh (Banyak Islands)
Ethnicity	Haloban
Native speakers	1,800 [1] [2]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Northwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands Simeulue Haloban
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	None

Haloban language is an Austronesian language or dialect of Simeulue language spoken by Haloban people, which is located in Banyak Islands, Aceh Singkil Regency, in the province of Aceh, Indonesia. From the 7 villages on Banyak Islands, this language is found in the villages of Haloban and Asantola.

Morphology

The Haloban language is morphologically of the agglutinative type. This is characterized by the use of affixes such as [ma-], [me-], [um-], [ba-], [basi-], [ni-], [ta-], [pa-], [sa-], and [an-]; infixes [-em-] and [-er-]; suffixes [-an], [-ken], [-ne], [-o], [-mo], and [-i]; confixes [sa-ne], [ma-ken], [par-an], and [ni-i] which play an important role in the formation say, both the role of the basic forms of nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and numerals. ^[3]

Basic structure of language clauses Haloban consists of intransitive and transitive verbal clauses. Typology of word order commonly used in Haloban language clauses are S-V-(KET)/ V-(PRO)-(KET) for intransitive verbal clauses and S-V-O/V-(PRO)-O for verbal clauses transitive or in certain circumstances the sequence O-S-V is also acceptable. ^[3]

Vocabulary

The following is a vocabulary comparison between the languages of Haloban and Simeulue, which are their closest relatives, and are considered to be of the same language family. ^[4]

Gloss	Haloban	Simeulue
Times vocabulary
yesterday	sualal	ancifalal, inansifalal
tomorrow	rem'man	deman
after tomorrow	ro'wongi	dofongi
morning	sulawik	helafe
noon	walal	falal
dusk	tlu'walal	telefalal
night	w'ngi	bengi
earlier	sunan	nanciyuk
later	siuk	sinu
now	suma'ar	duma'ar
Interrogatives vocabulary
what	araya	araya
who	anea	itaya
why	anan	anade
where	uma'e	uma'e
when	anegkan	engkeneng
how	ebek	eben
how many	owel	orone
Adjectives vocabulary
make	are'en	ade'en
embarrassed	e'we	aefe
angry	mahangek	afala
smelly	aworok	aforok
stuck	tasangkut	labeit
hungry	malahal	lahal
let go	l'pat	lepaik
pregnant	abeto	afeselan
Pronouns vocabulary
me	de'o	ede
you	di'o	diame
he	ise	e'ise
they	diame	e'sira
we	i'ta	e'ita
Adverbials vocabulary
who knows	wait	haik
until	sampe	lentok
that	eda	aede
none	waon he	akduon
there	merui	aro'i
Verbs vocabulary
hit	hanyak, lacut	hantam
fight	hiro'k	harouk
come	w'sang	obesang
are doing	khasa	abeteng
call	ongan	angan
turn off	mate'ken	atayan
sleep	me'rek	mare
drink	manginom	mainom
look for	khawali	mahawal
beat up	n'took	mahobel
cook	ancak	mancak
do	mare'en	mangade'en
Nouns vocabulary
foot	kha'ew	hae
hand	khawo'k	haok
cotton	khapat	hapaik
money	kepeng	hepeng
fire	ahe'e	ahoi
lime betel	ahol	aol
fishing line	talikayi	awel
life	nyawa	inennawa

See also

• Haloban people
• Simeulue language

References

1. "Ethnologue: Languages of the World – Simeulue". www.ethnologue.com. Ethnologue . Retrieved 5 July 2025.
2. "Haloban (Dialect of Simeulue)" (PDF). www.jtic.org. JTIC. Retrieved 5 July 2025.
3. Syarifuddin (2024). Tipologi Morfologis dan Struktur Argumen Bahasa Haloban (Thesis) (in Indonesian). Doctoral Dissertations (Linguistics). Medan: University of North Sumatra. pp. 1–453 – via Repositori Institusi USU.
4. "Perbedaan Bahasa Suku Haloban Dengan Suku Devayan". www.singkilterkini.net (in Indonesian). Singkil Terkini. 16 April 2021. Retrieved 13 October 2025.

External links

• http://repository.usu.ac.id/bitstream/123456789/5648/1/002109001.pdf%5B%5D
• Pulau Banyak (PDF). Haloban, Indonesia: CV Penerbit Balohan Haloban. July 2009. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-05-24. Retrieved 2025-07-04.