Alas language (original) (raw)
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Austronesian language spoken in Sumatra, Indonesia
| Alas | |
|---|---|
| Batak Alas | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sumatra |
| Ethnicity | Alas Kluet Singkil |
| Native speakers | (200,000 cited 2000 census)[1] |
| Language family | Austronesian Malayo-PolynesianNorthwest Sumatra–Barrier IslandsBatakNorthernAlas |
| Writing system | LatinBatak |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by | Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | btz |
| Glottolog | bata1292 |
Alas-Kluet, Alas, or Batak Alas is an Austronesian language of Sumatra. The three dialects, Alas, Kluet, and Singkil (Kade-Kade), may not constitute a single language; Alas may be closer to Karo, and the others closer to Dairi. By linguistic affiliation, Alas–Kluet belongs to the Batak subgroup. Ethnically, however, its speakers generally do not identify as Batak, mostly because of their religion, and also due to political reasons.[2]
The phonology of Alas are as follows:[3]
Consonants
| | Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Dorsal | Glottal | | | | -------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------- | | Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | | | | Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | ʔ | | voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | | | | Fricative | | s | | | h | | | Approximant | | l | j | w | | | | Trill | | | | ʀ | | |
Vowels
| | Front | Central | Back | | | ----------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Close | i | | u | | Open-mid | ɛ | ə | o | | Open | | a | |
- ^ Alas at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Akifumi Iwabuchi (1994). The People of the Alas Valley: A Study of an Ethnic Group of Northern Sumatra. Clarendon Press. ISBN 0-19-827902-7.
- ^ Akbar, Osra M. (1985). Kamus Alas-Indonesia Seri K (PDF) (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. pp. xv. Archived from the original on 2021-08-15. Retrieved 2025-07-17.
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- Suhery, D.; Hasnain, S.I. (2018). "Social Contexts of Phonological Contrasts and Indexicality: Variability and Identity among Singkils". The 1st Annual International Conference on Language and Literature (AICLL). Vol. 3. pp. 178–190. doi:10.18502/kss.v3i4.1930.
- Soravia, Giulio (2007). Alas Completo (PDF). Bologna University.
