Ma’anyan

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Ma’anyan is an Austronesian language spoken by the Ma’anyan people of central Kalimantan in Indonesia, known for its conservative linguistic features and close relation to other East Barito languages.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Maanyan 6
Ma’anyan canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austronesian language
East Barito language
natural language
closelyRelatedTo Malagasy
Other East Barito languages
continent Asia
country Indonesia
hasAlternativeName Maanyan
linked to: Ma’anyan

Ma’anjan
Ma’anyan Dayak
linked to: Maanyan Dayak
hasDialect Jangkung
Paju Epat
Paku
Warukin
hasEndangermentStatus vulnerable (various assessments)
hasISO639-3Code mhy
hasLinguisticFeature conservative morphology
conservative phonology
retention of Proto-Austronesian features
hasLoanwordsFrom Indonesian
Malay
hasMorphologicalFeature affixation for voice and valency
derivational prefixes and suffixes
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length (in some analyses)
rich consonant inventory typical of Bornean Austronesian languages
hasResearchField Austronesian comparative linguistics
historical linguistics
hasSociolinguisticStatus minority language in Indonesia
hasWordOrder SVO-dominant
importantFor reconstruction of Proto-East Barito
studies of Malagasy prehistory
influencedBy Banjar Malay
linked to: Banjarese Malay

Indonesian
languageBranch Malayo-Polynesian
languageFamily Austronesian
locatedOn island of Borneo
partOf Austronesian language family
Malayo-Polynesian languages
region Borneo
Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
linked to: Central Kalimantan
spokenBy Ma’anyan people
spokenIn Central Kalimantan
Indonesia
subfamilyOf East Barito languages
usedByEthnicGroup Ma’anyan people
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Maanyan language glottologName Ma’anyan
Maanyan people ethnonym Maanyan
linked to: Ma’anyan
Paku dialect ethnicGroup Maanyan
linked to: Ma’anyan
Ma’anyan hasAlternativeName Maanyan
linked to: Ma’anyan
Maanyan Dayak alternativeName Maanyan
linked to: Ma’anyan
Maanyan Dayak ethnicGroupAssociated Maanyan
linked to: Ma’anyan
Luangan neighboringLanguage Maanyan
linked to: Ma’anyan