Coastal Konjo language

Coastal Konjo
Native to	Indonesia
Region	South Sulawesi
Native speakers	(125,000 cited 1990)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian South Sulawesi Makassaric Coastal Konjo; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kjc
Glottolog	coas1295[2]

Coastal Konjo is an Austronesian language of Sulawesi, Indonesia, which belongs to the Makassaric branch of the South Sulawesi subgroup. It is spoken along the coast in the southeastern corner of South Sulawesi in the regencies of Sinjai, Bulukumba and Bantaeng.[3][4] It is closely related to, but distinct from Highland Konjo, which also belongs to the Makassaric languages.

Phonology

The following sound inventory is based on Friberg & Friberg (1991).[5]

The vowel /a/ is realized as [ə] before geminate nasals.

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive/Affricate	voiceless	p	t	t͡ʃ	k	ʔ
Plosive/Affricate	voiced	b	d	d͡ʒ	ɡ
Fricative			s			h
Semivowel				j	w
Lateral			l
Trill			r

Only [ŋ] and [ʔ] can appear in final position. Words with underlying final /s/, /l/ or /r/ add an echo vowel, e.g. /nipis/ ['nipisi] 'thin'.

Personal pronouns in Coastal Konjo have one independent form, and three bound forms.[6]

Personal pronouns
	free	ergative	absolutive	possessive
1.sg./1.pl.excl.	nakke	ku-	-a	-ku
1.pl.incl./2.honorific	gitte	ki-	-ki	-ta
2.familiar	kau	nu-	-ko	-mu
3.	ia	na-	-i	-na

Coastal Konjo at Ethnologue (19th ed., 2016)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Coastal Konjo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
Grimes, C. E. and B. E. Grimes (1987). Languages of South Sulawesi. Canberra: Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 0858833522.
Friberg, T. and T.V. Laskowske (1989). "South Sulawesi languages". In: J.N. Sneddon (ed.), Studies in Sulawesi linguistics part 1, pp. 1-17. Jakarta: Badan Penyelenggara Seri Nusa.
Friberg, Barbara and Friberg, Timothy (1991). Notes on Konjo phonology. In James N. Sneddon (ed.), Studies in Sulawesi linguistics, part II, 71-115. Jakarta: Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya.
Friberg, Barbara (1996). "Konjo's peripatetic person markers". In Hein Steinhauer (ed.). Papers in Austronesian Linguistics No. 3. Canberra: Australian National University. pp. 137–171.

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