Malay Dialects of the Batanghari River Basin (Jambi, Sumatra)
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Malay Dialects of the Batanghari River Basin (Jambi, Sumatra) Malay title: DIALEK MELAYU DI LEMBAH SUNGAI BATANGHARI (JAMBI, SUMATRA) Karl Ronald Anderbeck SIL International SIL e-Books 6 ©2008 SIL International Library of Congress Catalog Number: 2007-942663 ISBN-13: 978-155671-189-3 ISSN: 1934-2470 Fair Use Policy Books published in the SIL e-Books (SILEB) series are intended for scholarly research and educational use. You may make copies of these publications for research or instructional purposes free of charge (within fair use guidelines) and without further permission. Republication or commercial use of SILEB or the documents contained therein is expressly prohibited without the written consent of the copyright holder(s). Series Editor Mary Ruth Wise Volume Editors Doris Bartholomew Alanna Boutin Compositor Margaret González ii Contents List of Tables................................................................................................................................................. vi List of Figures ............................................................................................................................................. viii List of Maps................................................................................................................................................... ix Abstract .......................................................................................................................................................... x Abstrak .......................................................................................................................................................... xi Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................................................ xii List of Abbreviations................................................................................................................................... xiii 1 "The Cradle of the Malays"..................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 1 1.2 Details of area................................................................................................................................. 2 1.3 Current language situation in Jambi ............................................................................................... 3 1.4 Historical and social background ................................................................................................... 5 1.4.1 Homeland of Malay – Borneo or Sumatra? ....................................................................... 5 1.4.2 Proto- and Deutero-Malays................................................................................................ 7 1.4.3 Mitani and “old” Highland Malay ..................................................................................... 8 1.4.4 Andaya and Highlands/Lowlands separation..................................................................... 9 1.4.5 Non-Malay influences on Sumatran Malay ..................................................................... 10 1.4.6 Minangkabau migrations in Jambi................................................................................... 10 1.4.7 Jambi Malay and other Malay varieties ........................................................................... 11 1.4.8 Jambi Malay and Standard Indonesian ............................................................................ 12 1.4.9 Jambi Malay and Jambi Indonesian................................................................................. 12 1.5 Trees and waves – models of explaining linguistic reality........................................................... 12 1.6 Literature review .......................................................................................................................... 13 1.6.1 Jambi Malay language ..................................................................................................... 13 1.6.2 Other relevant works........................................................................................................ 15 1.7 Hypotheses ................................................................................................................................... 16 1.7.1 Riverine hypothesis.......................................................................................................... 16 1.7.2 Batin hypothesis............................................................................................................... 17 1.7.3 Penghulu hypothesis ........................................................................................................ 17 1.7.4 Proto-uniformity hypothesis ............................................................................................ 17 1.7.5 Southeast Sumatran dispersion hypothesis ...................................................................... 17 1.8 Conclusion.................................................................................................................................... 17 2 Just NORM-al Dialectology.................................................................................................................. 19 2.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 19 2.2 Data collection.............................................................................................................................. 19 2.2.1 Wordlist ........................................................................................................................... 19 2.2.2 Issues with wordlists and texts......................................................................................... 19 2.2.3 Orthographic notes........................................................................................................... 20 2.3 Research sites ............................................................................................................................... 21 2.4 Language consultants ................................................................................................................... 24 2.5 Data processing ............................................................................................................................ 25 2.6 Comments on lexicostatistics ....................................................................................................... 25 2.7 Conclusion.................................................................................................................................... 26 3 The Ins and Outs of Jambi Malay.......................................................................................................... 27 3.1 Introduction .................................................................................................................................. 27 3.2 JM phoneme system ..................................................................................................................... 27 3.2.1 JM consonant phonemes.................................................................................................. 27 3.2.2 JM vowel phonemes ........................................................................................................ 28 3.2.3 JM phonotactic constraints .............................................................................................. 30 3.2.4 Regional variation in JM phoneme inventory.................................................................. 31 3.3 Proto-Malayic innovations present in JM..................................................................................... 33 3.4 Innovations that occur in all Jambi Malay areas .......................................................................... 35 3.4.1 Merger of PM final-syllable *ə and *a into a .................................................................. 35 iii 3.4.2 PM *-a > o....................................................................................................................... 36 3.4.3 PM *h-, *-h- > Ø.............................................................................................................. 37 3.4.4 PM *-k > ʔ........................................................................................................................ 37 3.4.5 Occasional *-r > ʔ (air, ikur) ........................................................................................... 37 3.4.6 Unstable *-l...................................................................................................................... 38 3.4.7 Foreign loans in JM ......................................................................................................... 38 3.4.7.1 Sanskrit in JM.................................................................................................. 38 3.4.7.2 Dutch in JM ..................................................................................................... 38 3.4.8 maN-/N-/Ø active prefixes ............................................................................................... 38 3.4.9 –kan suffix ....................................................................................................................... 39 3.5 Innovations that occur