Mamasa is an Austronesian language spoken in West Sulawesi, Indonesia. This language is the native language of the Mamasa people which is related to the Toraja people.
| Mamasa | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | West Sulawesi |
| Ethnicity | Mamasa Pattae' (dialect speaker of Pattae') |
Native speakers | 89,000 (2010 Census)[1] |
Austronesian
| |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mqj |
| Glottolog | mama1276 |
Dialects
editThree dialects can be distinguished:[2]
Speakers of Pattae' are a culturally distinct ethnic group traditionally more affiliated to the Mandar people than to speakers of the Northern and Central Mamasa dialects in the interior, and for that reason Pattae' is considered by its speakers to be a language separate from Mamasa proper (i.e. Northern and Central Mamasa).
Phonology
editMamasa has the following consonants and vowels:[3]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | k | ʔ | |
| voiced | b | d | g | |||
| Fricative | s | |||||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Semivowel | w | j | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | o | |
| Low | a |
References
edit- ^ Mamasa at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ "The Mamasa Language". Sulawesi Language Alliance. Archived from the original on 14 December 2017. Retrieved 14 Dec 2017.
- ^ Smith, Beverly Kean (1993). A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Pitu Ulunna Salu (M.A. thesis). University of Texas at Arlington. OCLC 840034799.
Further reading
edit- Matti, David F. (1991). "Phonology of Mamasa" (PDF). In Rene van den Berg (ed.). Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures (PDF). Vol. 12, Sulawesi phonologies. Ujung Pandang, Sulawesi: Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. 53–97. ISBN 979-8132-85-8.
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