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The Enggano language, or Engganese, is the poorly known language of Enggano Island off the southwestern coast of Sumatra.
It appears to be an Austronesian language, though much of the basic vocabulary cannot be connected to other Austronesian languages.
When first contacted by Europeans, the Enggano people had more in common culturally with the Nicobar Islands than with Austronesian
Sumatra; however, there are no apparent linguistic connections with Nicobarese or other Austroasiatic languages. Enggano has
historically undergone nasal harmony in its identifiable Austronesian vocabulary, where all stop consonants and vowels in
a word became nasal after a nasal vowel, and oral after an oral vowel, so that there is no longer a phonemic distinction between
them. For example, *eũ’ada’a became eũ’ãnã’ã, while nasal consonants are no longer found in ’ub 'house' or ’a-rib 'five' (cf.
Malay rumah, lima). Enggano is the only western Austronesian language in which *t shifted to /k/, an unusual change that occurred
independently several times in Oceanic after *k shifted to glottal stop. |
Names (more)[en] Enggano language[fr] Enggano [id] Bahasa Enggano [ru] Энггано |
Language type : Living
Technical notes
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ISO 639 CodesISO 639-3 : enoLinked Data URIshttp://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/enohttp://dbpedia.org/resource/ISO_639:eno More URIs at sameas.org SourcesAuthority documentation for ISO 639 identifier: enoFreebase ISO 639-3 : eno GeoNames.org Country Information Publications Office of the European Union Metadata Registry : Countries and Languages |