| Semai | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | Peninsular Malaysia | |
| Total speakers: | 33,000 | |
| Language family: | Austro-Asiatic Mon-Khmer Southern Aslian Senoic Semai | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | mkh | |
| ISO 639-3: | sea | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. For the biogeographical region see Malesia Malaysia (məˈleɪʒə or /məˈleɪziə/ is a country that consists of thirteen states and List of language familiesA language family is a group of Languages related by descent from a common ancestor called the Proto-language of that family The Austro-Asiatic languages are a large Language family of Southeast Asia, and also scattered throughout India and Bangladesh. The Mon-Khmer languages are the autochthonous Language family of Southeast Asia. The Aslian languages are the languages of the Orang Asli, the aboriginal inhabitants of Malaya and peninsular Thailand, and a branch of The Senoic languages (also called Sakai) are a group of Aslian languages spoken by about 33000 people in the main range of the Malay peninsula. ISO 639-1 is the first part of the ISO 639 international-standard language-code family ISO 639-2 is the second part of the ISO 639 standard, which lists codes for the representation of the names of languages ISO 639 -3 (ISO 639-32007 is an international standard for Language codes The standard describes three‐letter codes for identifying languages In Computing, Unicode is an Industry standard allowing Computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's | ||
Semai is an Austroasiatic language belonging to the Mon-Khmer subgroup, and it is spoken in Western Malaysia by about 33,000 speakers. The Austro-Asiatic languages are a large Language family of Southeast Asia, and also scattered throughout India and Bangladesh. The Mon-Khmer languages are the autochthonous Language family of Southeast Asia. For the biogeographical region see Malesia Malaysia (məˈleɪʒə or /məˈleɪziə/ is a country that consists of thirteen states and
One notable aspect of Semai phonology is its highly irregular pattern of expressive reduplication, showing discontiguous copying from just the edges of the reduplicant's base, thus forming a minor syllable. Phonology ( Greek φωνή (phōnē voice sound + λόγος (lógos word speech subject of discussion is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning Reduplication, in Linguistics, is a morphological Process by which the root or stem of a Word, or part of it is repeated A syllable ( Greek:) is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds
References
- Diffloth, Gerard. 1976a. Minor-Syllable Vocalism in Senoic Languages. In Philip N. Lenner, Laurence C. Thompson, and Stanley Starosta (eds. ), Austroasiatic Studies, Part I, 229-247. Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press.
- Diffloth, Gerard. 1976b. Expressives in Semai. In Philip N. Lenner, Laurence C. Thompson, and Stanley Starosta (eds. ), Austroasiatic Studies, Part I, 249-264. Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press.
- Hendricks, Sean. 2001. Bare-Consonant Reduplication Without Prosodic Templates: Expressive Reduplication in Semai. Journal of East Asian Linguistics 10: 287-306.
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