Ma'anyan language
| Ma'anyan | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Kalimantan |
Native speakers | 150,000 (2003)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
mhy |
| Glottolog |
maan1238[2] |
Ma'anyan or Ma'anjan or Maanyak Dayak is an Austronesian language belonging to the East Barito languages. It is spoken by about 150,000 Ma'anyan people (subgroup of Dayak people) living in the central Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is closely related to the Malagasy language spoken in Madagascar. There is high lexical similarity with other East Barito languages like Paku (77%) or Dusun Witu (75%).
Vocabulary
Vocabulary comparison between Banjarese, Ma'anyan and Malay language.
| Malay | Banjarese | Ma'anyan | English |
| monyet | warik | warik | monkey |
| bemban | bamban | waman | |
| bulian | balian | wadian | |
| maharaja | maharaja | miharaja | maharajah |
| patih | patih | patis | regent |
| lama | lawas | lawah | long |
| kawan | kawal | kawal | friend |
| obat | tatamba | tatamba | medicine |
| senang | aray | aray | happy, easy |
| masih | magun | pagun | to keep ...ing |
| arya | aria | uria | |
| demang | damang | damhong | |
References
- ↑ Ma'anyan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ma'anyan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
External links
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Ma'anyan language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
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