Lawangan language explained

Lawangan
States:	Indonesia
Region:	Kalimantan
Ethnicity:	Lawangan people
Speakers:	120,000
Date:	1981
Ref:	e18
Familycolor:	Austronesian
Fam2:	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:	East Barito
Fam4:	North
Lc1:	lbx
Ld1:	Lawangan
Lc2:	twy
Ld2:	Tawoyan
Glotto:	nort2888
Glottorefname:	North East Greater Barito

Lawangan is an Austronesian language of the East Barito group. It is spoken by about 100,000 Lawangan people (one of the Dayak peoples) living in the central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Lawangan has a high degree of dialectal diversity.

Dialects

Lawangan is divided into at least several dialects, including:

• Ajuh
• Bakoi (Lampüng)
• Bantian (Bentian), spoken at Bentian Besar, West Kutai Regency
• Banuwang
• Bawu (Bawo)
• Benuaq
• Kali
• Karau (Beloh)
• Lawa
• Lolang
• Mantararen
• Njumit
• Paser / Pasir. This dialect is spoken at Paser Regency and its surroundings. This dialect is also often known as "Paser language".^{[1] [2]}
• Purai
• Purung
• Tuwang

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosive	voiceless	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
	voiced	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Nasal		pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Fricative			pronounced as /link/
Trill			pronounced as /link/
Lateral			pronounced as /link/
Approximant		pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	pronounced as /link/		pronounced as /link/
Mid	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/	pronounced as /link/
Open		pronounced as /link/

^[3]

Further reading

• Book: Fudiat Suryadikara . Darmansyab . M. P. lambut . Struktur Bahasa Lawangan . 1985 . Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa . Jakarta . id . Lawangan Language Structure . Repositoris Institusi Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.
• Book: Andriastuti . Yohanes Kalaniper . C. Yus Ngabut . Dadang Lorida . 1992 . Morfologi dan Sintaksis Bahasa Lawangan . Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa . Jakarta . 979-459-186-6 . id . Lawangan Language Morphology and Syntax . Repositoris Institusi Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan.

Notes and References

1. Book: Ismail , Abdurachman . Abdurachman Ismail

   . id . Abdurachman Ismail . Bahasa Pasir . Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan . 1979 . 23.

2. Book: Darmansyah , Darmansyah . id . Bahasa Pasir . Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa, Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan . Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa . 1979 . 23.
3. Suryadikara et al. (1985)