Bambam language explained

Bambam
Nativename:Pitu Ulunna Salu
States:Indonesia
Region:Sulawesi
Date:2010
Ref:e25
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:South Sulawesi
Fam4:Northern
Fam5:Pitu Ulunna Salu
Iso3:ptu
Glotto:bamb1270
Glottorefname:Bambam

Bambam (also: Pitu Ulunna Salu) is an Austronesian language of West Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is spoken in the Mambi and Tabang districts of Mamasa Regency, and in the Matangnga district of Polewali Mandar Regency.[1] Together with Aralle-Tabulahan, Ulumanda', Pannei and Dakka, Bambam belongs to the Pitu Ulunna Salu languages, which form a subbranch within the Northern branch of the South Sulawesi subgroup.[2]

Phonology

Vowel phonemes[3]
FrontBack
Closepronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/
Midpronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/
Open/Near-openpronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/
Consonant phonemes
LabialAlveolarPostalveolarVelarGlottal
Stop/
Affricate
voicelesspronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/(pronounced as /ink/)
voicedpronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/
Fricativepronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/
Nasalpronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/pronounced as /ink/
Lateralpronounced as /ink/

Further reading

Notes and References

  1. Campbell . Philip J. . 1989 . Some Aspects of Pitu Ulunna Salu Grammar: A Typological Approach . MA thesis . University of Texas at Arlington .
  2. Book: Friberg . Timothy . Laskowske . Thomas V. . 1989 . South Sulawesi languages . J.N. Sneddon . Studies in Sulawesi linguistics part 1 . 1–17 . NUSA 17 . Jakarta . Badan Penyelenggara Seri Nusa . http://sealang.net/archives/nusa/pdf/nusa-v31-p1-18.pdf.
  3. Book: Campbell, Philip J. . Workpapers in Indonesian Languages and Cultures . Summer Institute of Linguistics . 1991 . 979-8132-85-8 . Rene van den Berg . 12, Sulawesi phonologies . Ujung Pandang, Sulawesi . 1–52 . Phonology of Pitu Ulunna Salu . https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/66/73/79/66737946644624774820443359661713746919/WILC_v12_ch01_Pitu_Ulunna_Salu.pdf.