Makassar languages

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Makassar
Geographic
distribution		 Indonesia (Sulawesi)
Linguistic classification Austronesian
Subdivisions
Language codes
Glottolog maka1310
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  Languages within Makassar languages group, varying between number 6 to 10.
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The Makassar languages are a group of languages spoken in the southern part of South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, and make up one of the branches of the South Sulawesi subgroup in the Austronesian language family. [1] [2] The most prominent member of this group is Makassarese, with over two million speakers in the city of Makassar and neighboring areas.

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The status of the Makassar languages, other than Makassarese, as distinct languages is not universally accepted. In older classifications, [3] as well as in recent studies by local linguists, [4] they are considered to be dialects of the Makassarese language.

Languages

Phonology

A characteristic feature of the Makassar languages is the occurrence of echo vowels with stems ending in final /r/, /l/ or /s/. E.g. /botol/ 'bottle' is realized as bótolo in Selayar and Coastal Konjo, and as bótoloʔ in Makassarese and Highland Konjo (the latter regularly adds a glottal stop to the echo vowel). This echo vowel is dropped if a suffix is added, but retained if followed by an enclitic. [5]

Makassarese Selayar
base/rantas/
rántasaʔ
'dirty'		/lambus/
lámbusu
'straight'
with suffix/rantas/ + /-aŋ/
rantás-aŋ
'dirtier'		/lambus/ + /-aŋ/
lambús-aŋ
'straighter'
with enclitic/rantas/ + /=aʔ/
rántasak=aʔ
'I am dirty'		/lambus/ + /=a/
lámbusu=a
'I am straight'

Konjo (both Coastal and Highland Konjo), Bentong, Selayar and the Labbakkang dialect of Makassarese have j/ɟ/ and /h/ where Makassarese (Maros, Goa, Takalar, Jeneponto, Bantaeng) has y/j/ and /w/. In some words, Coastal/Highland Konjo and Selayar have h corresponding to zero in Makassarese, e.g. Konjo/Selayar bahine ('female'), uhuʔ ('hair') vs. Makassarese baine, uʔ.

MakassareseKonjoSelayar
pigbawibahibahi
timewattuhattuhattu
many, muchlowe, [i] [ii] (jai)lohelohe
rat, mousebalawo [i] balahobalaho
waittayangtajangtajang
woodkayukajukaju
look, findboyahojaboja
to makebayu, [ii] (pareʼ)haju(buaʼ)
  1. 1 2 it written as loe, balao in standard orthography
  2. 1 2 dialect form

In Konjo languages, some initial b appears as /h/.

MakassareseKonjoSelayar
to look, findboyahojaboja
hotbambanghambangbambang

Lexical differences

Makassarese Coastal KonjoHighland KonjoSelayar
Gowa (Standard)JenepontoBantaeng
to makeappareʼaʼbayuaʼbajuaʼbajuaʼbuaʼ
to sitammempoaccidongaccidongammorongattolong
hungrycipuruʼpaʼrepaʼrepaʼrepaʼre
rice fieldtanagalunggalunggalunggalung
many, muchjailoelohelohelohe
whyangngapaangnguraangnguraannguraangngura
friendagangurangurangurangurang
waterjeʼneʼereereerejeʼneʼ
eggbayaobajaotannoroʼtannoro
dogkongkongasuasuasuasu
catmiongcammiʼcammiʼ, meongmeongmeong
leaflekoʼraungraungraungtaha
blackleʼlengbolonglotongetang
whitekeboʼputeputepute
eightsagantujukaruakaruakarua
ninesalapangsalapangsalapangkaʼassa
vegetablegangangutangganganggangang
houseballaʼballaʼ, bolabolasapo
chickenjangangjangangmanuʼjangang

See also

References

  1. ↑ Grimes, C. E. and B. E. Grimes (1987). Languages of South Sulawesi . Canberra: Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. doi:10.15144/PL-D78. ISBN   0858833522.
  2. ↑ Friberg, T. and T.V. Laskowske (1989). "South Sulawesi languages". In: J.N. Sneddon (ed.), Studies in Sulawesi linguistics part 1, pp. 1-17. Jakarta: Badan Penyelenggara Seri Nusa.
  3. ↑ Esser, S.J. (1938). "Talen". Atlas van Tropisch Nederland. Blad 9a. Batavia: Topografische Dienst.
  4. ↑ Ramlah Mappau (2017). "Konstituen Pengungkap Negasi Dalam Bahasa Makassar Dialek Lakiung dan Turatea" [Constituent of Negation Expression in Makassarese Language Dialect of Laking and Turatea]. Sawerigading (in Indonesian). 23 (1): 127–137.
  5. ↑ Basri, Hasan; Broselow, Ellen; Finer, Daniel (2012). "The end of the word in Makassar languages" (PDF). In Borowsky, Toni; Kawahara, Shigeto; Sugahara, Mariko; Shinya, Takahito (eds.). Prosody Matters: Essays in Honor of Elisabeth Selkirk. Advances in Optimality Theory. Sheffield & Bristol, Conn.: Equinox.
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