Temuan language explained

Temuan
Nativename:Bahasak Temuan
States:Malaysia
Region:central and southern Peninsular Malaysia
Ethnicity:Temuan
Date:2008
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Austronesian
Fam2:Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3:Malayo-Sumbawan
Fam4:Malayic
Fam5:Malay?
Script:Latin
Dialects:Belandas
Mantra
Iso3:tmw
Glotto:temu1239
Glottorefname:Temuan

Temuan language (Temuan:,,,,, Malay: Bahasa Temuan) is a Malayic language (part of the Austronesian language family) spoken by the Temuan people, one of the Orang Asli or indigenous peoples of Peninsular Malaysia which can be found in the states of Selangor, Pahang, Johor, Malacca and Negeri Sembilan. Temuan is a separate language but has a degree of mutual intelligibility with the Malay language. It is written in a Latin alphabet, but no standard orthography has been made.

Examples of Temuan words:

EnglishMalay languageTemuan language
I
You (casual)
You (formal)
Aunty[1]
Uncle[2]
Bad
No/Not
Don't have
Alcohol/Liquor
Hokkien mee
Smoked monkey meat
Day
People
Tell[3]

Dialects

Temuan is divided into two major dialects, namely Belandas and Mantra, which differ mostly in terms of phonology and to some extent vocabulary but are still mutually intelligible.

Comparison between Belandas and Mantra dialects:

Sample of Temuan Belandas dialect – ('he/she'), ('only'), ('we'), (end of sentence particle).

Sample of Temuan Mantra dialect – ('he/she'), ('only'), ('we'), (end of sentence particle).

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Carian Umum .
  2. Web site: Carian Umum .
  3. Web site: Carian Umum .