Classification:Austric: Austronesian: Malayo-Polynesian: Western: Borneo: Barito: East
Other Sources:Hudson, Alfred B. 1967. The Barito Isolects of Borneo. CUDP 68.
Consonant system:
p b t d k ɡ̌ s m n ŋ l r
Stops:p b t d k
Affricates:ɡ̌
Fricatives:s
Nasals:m n ŋ
Laterals:l
Vibrants:r
Glides:j w
Vowel system:
Front Vowels:i e
Central Vowels:ɨ a
Back Vowels:u o
Number:2922
Language:Dusun Deyah
Location:Indonesia (S Borneo)
Population:20,000
Classification:Austric: Austronesian: Malayo-Polynesian: Western: Borneo: Barito: East
Other Sources:Hudson, Alfred B. 1967. The Barito Isolects of Borneo. CUDP 68.
Consonant system:
p t k ɡ̌ s m n ŋ l r
Stops:p t k
Affricates:ɡ̌
Fricatives:s
Nasals:m n ŋ
Laterals:l
Vibrants:r
Glides:j w
Vowel system:
Front Vowels:i e
Central Vowels:a
Back Vowels:u o
Number:2923
Language:Ma'anyan
Location:Indonesia (SE Borneo)
Classification:Austric: Austronesian: Malayo-Polynesian: Western: Borneo: Barito: East
Other Sources:
AL 7:2 WALS
Consonant system:
p b t d k ɡ ɡ̌ s h m n ñ ŋ l r
Stops:p b t d k ɡ
Affricates:ɡ̌
Fricatives:s h
Nasals:m n ñ ŋ
Laterals:l
Vibrants:r
Modified Consonants:Nc p b t d k ɡ ɡ̌ s r
Glides:j w
Vowel system:
Front Vowels:i e
Central Vowels:a
Back Vowels:u
Syntax:SVO
Number:2924
Language:Malagasy
Location:Madagascar
Population:5 million
Classification:Austric: Austronesian: Malayo-Polynesian: Western: Borneo: Barito: East
Dictionary:
Richardson, J. 1885. A New Malagasy-English Dictionary. Tananarive: London Missionary Society. [Reprinted 1967 by Gregg International Publishers, Farnborough, England] Abinal, Antoine and V. Malzac. 1963. Dictionnaire malgache-français. Paris: Editions Maritimes et Coloniales. An Elementary English-Malagasy Dictionary. 1970. Tananarive: Andro Vaovao & Trano Printy Loterana. Malzac, V. 1963. Dictionnaire français-malgache. Paris: Editions Maritimes et Coloniales. GD: Deschamps, Hubert. 1936. Le dialecte antaisaka (langue malgache). Tananarive: Pitot de la Beaujardière.
Grammar:
Malzac, V. 1960. Grammaire malgache. Paris: Société d'Editions Géographiques Maritimes et Coloniales. Arakin, V. D. 1963. Mal'gashskij jazyk. Moscow: Izdatel'stvo vostochnoj literatury. Garvey, Catherine J., et al. 1964. A Sketch of Malagasy Grammar. Washington, D.C.:CAL
TextBooks:
Garvey, Catherine J., et al. 1964. Malagasy Introductory Course. Washington D.C.:CAL. Stark, Elsie L. 1969. Malagasy without Moans. Tananarive: Trano Printy Loterana.
Other Sources:
Dahl, Otto C. 1952. " Etude de phonologie et de phonétique malgaches," Norsk Tidsskrift for Sprogvidenskap" 16, 148-200. Dyen, Isidore. 1971. "Malagasy," CTIL 8, 211-39. Keenan, Edward Louis and Elinor Ochs. 1979. "Becoming a Competent Speaker of Malagasy," in LTS, 113-58. Dez, Jacques. 1978. "Le malgache," in IEL, 331-49.
Consonant system:
p b t̪ d̪ ṭ ḍ k ɡ ts dz f v s z h m n̪ l ɾ
Stops:p b t̪ d̪ ṭ ḍ k ɡ
Affricates:ts dz
Fricatives:f v s z h
Nasals:m n̪
Laterals:l
Vibrants:ɾ
Modified Consonants:Nc b d̪ ḍ ɡ dz (The prenasalized voiceless stops mp, nt̪, nṭ, ŋk, nts, reported in the early literature, have apparently vanished from the contemporary language.)
Glides:j w
Vowel system:
Front Vowels:i e
Central Vowels:a
Back Vowels:u (ɔ)
Diphthongs:ai au ui
Syllable:(C) V (C)
Stress:penult & antepenult, sometimes phonemic
Demonstratives:6: this, that, that further away, that far away, that very far away, that's so far away it cannot be seen
Articles:def
Pronouns:
1 4ie 2 5 3 6
Syntax:VOS NA NG DND[both obligatory] N-NUM N-POSS D+N+A+Num+D