Kambera language
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| Kambera | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia | |
| Total speakers: | 234,574 (2000) | |
| Language family: | Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central-Eastern Central Bima-Sumba Kambera |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | map | |
| ISO 639-3: | xbr | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Kambera (also known as Sumbanese, East Sumbanese, Oost-Sumbaas, Humba, Hilu Humba, East Sumba, and Sumba) is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in the Lesser Sunda Islands, Indonesia.
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[edit] Phonology
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| High | i iː | u uː |
| Mid | e ai | o au |
| Low | a, aː | |
The diphthongs /ai/ and /au/ function phonologically as the long counterparts to /e/ and /o/, respectively.
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p | t | k | ||
| Implosive | ɓ | ɗ | |||
| Voiced affricate | dʒ | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
| Prenasalized stop | mb | ⁿd | ŋɡ | ||
| Prenasalized affricate | ɲdʒ | ||||
| Fricative | h | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||
| Rhotic | r | ||||
| Semivowel | w | j | |||
| Prenasalized semivowel | ɲj |
Kambera formerly had /s/, but a sound change occurring around the turn of the 20th century replaced all occurrences of former /s/ with /h/.
[edit] References
- Klamer, Marian (2005). "Kambera", in Adelaar, Karl Alexander and Himmelmann, Nikolaus: The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Curzon Press.
