Tenggerese dialect

Tenggerese
Basa Tengger
Region Java, Indonesia
Native speakers
 500,000[1] (2010 census)[2]
Javanese
Language codes
ISO 639-3 tes

Tenggerese language (sometimes referred to as Tengger Javanese language) is a language used by the Tenggerese people in the mountain region of the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park which includes Pasuruan Regency, Probolinggo Regency, Malang Regency and Lumajang Regency of East Java, Indonesia.

Linguistically, Tenggerese language is part of Javanese language in the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages.

Some regard the Tenggerese language as descendant of the Kawi language and have retained old vocabularies that are no longer used in modern Javanese language.[3]

Dispersion

Tenggerese language is spoken in regions that are settled by the Tenggerese people in the Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park area:

Grammar

A few examples of words in Tenggerese language:-

Tenggerese language Malay language English
reang aku I (for male)
isun aku I (for female)
sira kamu you
rika anda you (for an older person)

When the alphabet "A" is read as "O" in modern Javanese language, in Tenggerese language it is still read as "A".[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Publication Name:". Sp2010.bps.go.id. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  2. ↑ Tenggerese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. ↑ Dwi Astuti Wahyu Nurhayati (2016). "Phonological System of Tengger Dialect in Ngoko Speech Level". Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics. p. 2. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
  4. ↑ Dwi Astuti Wahyu Nurhayati (2016). "Phonological System of Tengger Dialect in Ngoko Speech Level". Indonesian Journal of EFL and Linguistics. p. 9. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
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