| Banggai | |
|---|---|
| Region | Sulawesi |
Native speakers | 130,000 (2000 census)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bgz |
| Glottolog | bang1368 |
The Banggai language is the main language spoken by the inhabitants of the Banggai Archipelago off the island of Sulawesi. It belongs to the Saluan–Banggai branch of the Celebic subgroup.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Dental/ Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | ɡ | |||
| prenasal vl. | ᵐp | ⁿt | ᵑk | |||
| prenasal vd. | ᵐb | ⁿd | ᵑɡ | |||
| Fricative | s | h | ||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
- /s/ may also be heard as prenasal [ⁿs] when after nasal sounds.
- Other sounds like [tʃ, dʒ, ɲ] are heard in loanwords from neighboring languages.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i iː | u uː | |
| Mid | e eː | o oː | |
| Open | a aː |
- Vowels /e, o/ can also be heard as [ɛ, ɔ] in closed syllables.[2]
References
- ↑ Banggai at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ↑ van den Bergh, J. D. (1953). Spraakkunst van het Banggais. The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.
Links
- Moseley, Christopher and E. R. Asher, ed. Atlas of the World's Languages (New York: Routelege, 1994) p. 122
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