Madurese language
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| Madurese | ||
|---|---|---|
| Madhura, Basa Mathura | ||
| Spoken in | Island of Madura, Sapudi Islands, northern coastal area of eastern Java, Singapore | |
| Total speakers | 14 million (1995) | |
| Language family | Austronesian | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | None | |
| ISO 639-2 | mad | |
| ISO 639-3 | mad | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
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Madurese is a language of the Madurese people of Madura Island and eastern Java, Indonesia; it is also spoken on Kangean Islands and Sapudi Islands. The Kangean dialect may be a separate language. It was traditionally written in the Javanese script, but the Latin alphabet is now more commonly used. The number of speakers, though shrinking, is estimated to be 8-13 million.
[edit] Phonology and Morphology
Madurese has more consonants than its neighboring languages due to it having voiceless unaspirated, voiceless aspirated, and voiced sounds. Similar to Javanese, it has a contrast between dental and alveolar (even retroflex) stops[citation needed]. Nouns are not inflected in gender and are pluralized via reduplication. Its basic word order is SVO. Negation is expressed by putting a negative particle before the verb, adjective or noun phrase. As with other similar languages there are different negative particles for different kinds of negation.
[edit] Common Words
- Man: lalake
- Woman: babine
- Yes: iya
- No: enja
- Water: aeng
- Sun: are
- Three: tello'
- I/me: sengko'
- You: be'en
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