Mamasa language

Mamasa
Mamasa
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sulawesi
Ethnicity	Mamasa people
Native speakers	(100,000 cited 1991)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian South Sulawesi Northern Toraja Mamasa; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Northern Mamasa; Central Mamasa; Pattae';
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mqj
Glottolog	mama1276

Mamasa is an Austronesian language of Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Dialects[]

Three dialects can be distinguished:^[2]

Northern Mamasa
Central Mamasa
Pattae'

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[]

Mamasa has the following consonants and vowels:^[3]

Consonants
		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ŋ
Plosive	voiceless	p	t		k	ʔ
Plosive	voiced	b	d		g
Fricative			s
Lateral			l
Trill			r
Semivowel		w		y

Vowels
	Front	Central	Back
High	i		u
Mid	e		o
Low		a

References[]

^ Mamasa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ "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[]

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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[e18-1] Mamasa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] "The Mamasa Language". Sulawesi Language Alliance. Archived from the original on 14 December 2017. Retrieved 14 Dec 2017.

[3] Smith, Beverly Kean (1993). A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto-Pitu Ulunna Salu (M.A. thesis). University of Texas at Arlington. OCLC 840034799.

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