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Banjar language is the native language used by the Banjarese people of South Kalimantan, Indonesia. As many Banjarese are
travelling merchants, they brought their language wherever they went all over Indonesia, even all over the world. Especially
on the island of Kalimantan, Banjarese can be considered as a lingua franca, as it is used widely in three of the four provinces
of Kalimantan: South Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, and Central Kalimantan, with the exception of West Kalimantan, where Malay
is more popular. Although Banjarese, with six million speakers, is commonly considered local Malay, a 2008 analysis of the
Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database was not able to verify that it is even Malayic. The study was only able to determine
with 80% confidence that Banjar is closer to Malayan and Iban than it is to other Malayo-Sumbawan languages. It does appear
that it is the most divergent Malayic language included in the study. The language contains a lot of Malay and some Javanese
cognates, but they usually have their own distinctively Banjarese counterparts. The Banjar language is divided into two major
dialects; the upper river (Banjar Hulu) and down river (Banjar Kuala) dialects. The main differences of the two dialects can
be found in phonology and lexicons, although slight differences in syntactic structure can also be noticed. Banjar Hulu has
only three vowels, namely /i/, /u/, and /a/. When a word contains vowels other than these three, the foreign vowel will be
replaced with one of them based on the closeness of height and other quality of the vowels. For example, Banjarese speaker
trying to pronounce the English word logo will sound like pronouncing the Indonesian word for innocent, lugu. The Indonesian
word orang for human will be pronounced urang. The word kemana (where) will be pronounced and even many times spelled kamana.
Other distinctive characteristic of the Banjar Hulu dialect is that words beginning with a vowel are most likely to be pronounced
with an /h/ sound in front of the words. The addition of the /h/ sound can also be noticed in the spelling. Banjar Kuala has
five vowels, /a, i, u, e, o/. A minor dialect, Bukit, is assigned a separate ISO code. |
Names (more)[en] Bukit Malay |
Language type : Living
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