| Mamasa | |
| Ethnicity: | Mamasa Pattae' (dialect speaker of Pattae') |
| States: | Indonesia |
| Region: | West Sulawesi |
| Date: | 2010 Census |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Austronesian |
| Fam2: | Malayo-Polynesian |
| Fam3: | South Sulawesi |
| Fam4: | Northern |
| Fam5: | Toraja |
| Dia1: | Northern Mamasa |
| Dia2: | Central Mamasa |
| Dia3: | Pattae' |
| Iso3: | mqj |
| Glotto: | mama1276 |
| Glottorefname: | Mamasa |
Mamasa is an Austronesian language spoken in West Sulawesi, Indonesia. This language is the native language of the Mamasa people which is related to the Toraja people.
Three dialects can be distinguished:[1]
Speakers of Pattae' are a culturally distinct ethnic group traditionally more affiliated to the Mandar people than to speakers of the Northern and Central Mamasa dialects in the interior, and for that reason Pattae' is considered by its speakers to be a language separate from Mamasa proper (i.e. Northern and Central Mamasa).
Mamasa has the following consonants and vowels:[2]
| Nasal | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||
| pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| Fricative | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Lateral | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Trill | pronounced as /ink/ | ||||||
| Semivowel | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | |||||
| High | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mid | pronounced as /ink/ | pronounced as /ink/ | ||
| Low | pronounced as /ink/ |