Siang language

Not to be confused with Siangic languages.

Siang
Ot Siang
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Kalimantan
Native speakers	(60,000 cited 1981) [1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian West Barito North Siang
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sya
Glottolog	sian1254

Siang, or Ot Siang, is a Barito language of the central Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Vocabulary

Comparison of vocabulary in dialects of North West Barito languages ^[2]

	Murung	Siang
one	ičɔ’	ičɔ
five	limɔ’	ʎimɔ’
ash	aβu’	aβu
rain	učan	učan
house	lɔpɔ	ʎopou
fire	apui	apui
sun	matanondou	matanɔndou
wild pig	baβui	baβui

References

1. Siang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Hudson 1967, p. 84-94.

Further reading

• Hudson, Alfred B. (1967). The Barito Isolects of Borneo: A Classification Based on Comparative Reconstruction and Lexicostatistics. Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. p. 112. hdl:1813/57536. ISBN   9780877270683.