Temiar language
| Temiar | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Peninsular Malaysia |
| Ethnicity | 25,000 (2008)[1] |
Native speakers | 15,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
tea |
| Glottolog |
temi1246[2] |
Temiar is an Aslian (Mon–Khmer) language spoken in Western Malaysia by the Temiar people. The Temiar are one of the larger Aslian peoples, but little more than half of them still speak their language.
References
Benjamin, Geoffrey. 1999. ‘Temiar kinship terminology: a linguistic and formal analysis.’ Occasional Paper no. 1, Malaysian Academy of Social Sciences (AKASS), Penang: AKASS Heritage Paper Series.
Benjamin, Geoffrey. 2011. ‘Deponent verbs and middle-voice nouns in Temiar.’ In: Sophana Srichampa & Paul Sidwell (eds), Austroasiatic Studies: Papers from ICAAL4 (=Mon-Khmer Studies, Special Issue no. 2), Canberra: Pacific Linguistics E-8, pp. 11–37. [ISBN 9780858836419 (electronic document)]
Benjamin, Geoffrey. 2012. ‘The peculiar history of the ethnonym “Temiar”.’ Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 27: 205–233. [ISSN 0217-9520 (print), 1793-2858 (online)] [dx.doi.org/10.1355/sj27-2a]
Benjamin, Geoffrey. 2012. ‘The Temiar causative (and related features).’ Mon-Khmer Studies 41: 32–45. [ISSN: 0147-5207 (online)]
Benjamin, Geoffrey. 2014. ‘Aesthetic elements in Temiar grammar.’ In: Jeffrey Williams (ed.), The Aesthetics of Grammar: Sound and Meaning in the Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 36–60. [ISBN 9781107007123 (print, hard cover), 9781107496309 (eBook, 2013)] [dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139030489.004]
- 1 2 Temiar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Temiar". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
