Kangean language (original) (raw)
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Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia
| Kangean | |
|---|---|
| bĕsa Kangéan | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Kangean Islands |
| Ethnicity | Kangean |
| Native speakers | (110,000 cited 2000 census)[1] |
| Language family | Austronesian Malayo-PolynesianMalayo-Sumbawan (?)MadureseKangean |
| Dialects | Western Kangean Eastern Kangean |
| Writing system | Latin Carakan Lontaraq Mangkasaraq Pegon |
| Official status | |
| Regulated by |  Language Development and Fostering Agency East Java Language Center |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kkv |
| Glottolog | kang1289 |
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Kangean (bĕsa Kangéan) is a Austronesian language spoken by the Kangean people, which is an ethnic group native to Kangean Islands region, north of the Bali Sea.[2][3][4] It is native to Kangean and the surrounding islands. The Kangean language is closely related to Madurese and partly mutually intelligible with it, and is often considered a dialect of Madurese.[5]
Viewed from an ethnolinguistic perspective from the discovery of inscriptions on the Kangean Islands, the original Kangean language is unknown or it can be concluded that so far it does not have its own traditional script. From time to time, the use of scripts from other languages has been used to write literary works in the Kangean language, including the Carakan, Lontara, Mangkasara, Pegon, and the Latin scripts which is currently the most frequently used.
The Kangean language is present generally written in the 26-letter Latin script, but the use of the letters ⟨X⟩ and ⟨Z⟩ is generally rare in everyday life except in names. In Dutch colonial times, the Latin script used in Kangean had diacritics like the Latin script for Old Javanese used to distinguish sounds in words; for example, the word tepaq (transl. har. 'appropriate') used to be written as tĕppaq, but nowadays Kangean tends to be written without diacritics and has undergone spelling standardization following Javanese spelling but simpler (for example, the word bathik in Javanese would be spelled as batik in Kangean).
| Uppercase | Lowercase | IPA |
|---|---|---|
| A | a | /aː/ |
| B | b | /bʱeː/ |
| C | c | /t͡ʃeː/ |
| D | d | /d̪eː/ |
| E | e | /eː/ |
| F | f | /ɛf/ |
| G | g | /geː/ |
| H | h | /haː/ |
| I | i | /iː/ |
| J | j | /d͡ʒeː/ |
| K | k | /kaː/ |
| L | l | /ɛl/ |
| M | m | /ɛm/ |
| N | n | /ɛn/ |
| O | o | /oː/ |
| P | p | /peː/ |
| Q | q | /kɪ/ |
| R | r | /ɛr/ |
| S | s | /ɛs/ |
| T | t | /teː/ |
| U | u | /uː/ |
| V | v | /veː/ |
| W | w | /weː/ |
| X | x | /eːks/ |
| Y | y | /jeː/ |
| Z | z | /zɛt/ |
- ^ Kangean at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ H. N. Kiliaan (1897). "Kangeansch. In Morphology and Syntaxis". Madoereesche Spraakkunst. Batavia: Landsdrukkerij: 153–176.
- ^ Eberhard, David M.; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D. (2021). "Ethnologue: Languages of the World". Dallas: SIL International. Archived from the original on 2021-10-04. Retrieved 2021-09-18.
- ^ "Kangean language" [Bahasa Kangean]. Glottolog 4.4.
- ^ Sofyan, Akhmad (2010). "Fonologi Bahasa Madura". Humaniora. 22 (2): 207–218. doi:10.22146/jh.1337 (inactive 12 July 2025).
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