Language name: |
SAMA |
UPSID number: |
2412 |
Alternate name(s): |
BAJO, BAJAU |
Classification: |
Austro-Tai, West Malayo-Polynesian |
This language has |
32 segments |
Its Frequency index is |
0.416297118 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
The language has these sounds: |
p
"t
k
?
mp
"nt
Nk
b
"d
g
mb
tS
ntS
dZ
ndZ
h
"s
"ns
m
"n
nj
N
"r
"l
j
w
i
"e
a
"o
u
"@
|
Comment: |
Sama is spoken in the Capul Island near San Bernadino Strait, northwest Samar in the phillipines. All vowels except schwa occur long and short and all consonants except /h/ and /?/ may appear geminate. Long vowels do not occur before geminates. Since prenasalized consonants can be geminated and permit a long vowel to precede they are treated as single consonants. Verheijen's final diphthongs /ai,au/ are interpreted as /aj,aw/. |
Source(s): |
Verheijen, J.A.J. 1986. The Sama/Bajau Language in the Lesser Sunda Islands. Pacific Linguistics, Series D, No. 70. Materials in Languages of Indonesia, No. 32, series editor W.A.L Stokhof. Australian National University, Canberra. |