Ma'anyan language

Ma'anyan
Native to Indonesia
Region Kalimantan
Native speakers
150,000  (2003)[1]
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 Malagasy languages 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.

MalayBanjareseMa'anyan
monyetwarikwarik
bembanbambanwaman
bulianbalianwadian
maharajamaharajamiharaja
patihpatihpatis
lamalawaslawah
temankawalkawal
obattatambatatamba
senangarayaray
masihmagunpagun
aryaariauria
demangdamangdamhong

References

  1. Ma'anyan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ma'anyan". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

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