- Source: Blagar language
Blagar is a Papuan language of Pantar island in the Alor archipelago of Indonesia. The Tereweng dialect spoken on Tereweng Island off the southeast coast of Pantar is sometimes considered a separate language.
The increasing prominence of Indonesian has been putting pressure on the Blagar language although the language is still used by all age groups. By the 1970s Indonesian replaced Blagar as the language of churches and mosques, and in the early 2000s the spread of Indonesian was furthered by the introduction of electricity on Pura Island.
Phonology
= Vowels
=Blagar has five vowels, with a sharp contrast between short and long vowels.
= Consonants
=Grammar
The morphological typology of Blagar is categorized as isolating.
Writing system
Blagar uses the 26 letters of the ISO basic Latin alphabet, and has two digraphs: ⟨ng⟩ and ⟨sy⟩.
⟨c⟩, ⟨q⟩, ⟨x⟩, ⟨z⟩ and ⟨sy⟩ are only used in foreign place names and loanwords.
Another writing system is also used, which is phonemic and is similar to the writing system of Indonesian.
References
Bibliography
Steinhauer, Hein (1977). ""Going" and "Coming" in the Blagar of Dolap (Pura--Alor--Indonesia) 1)" (PDF). SEAlang. Retrieved 2023-01-02.
Steinhauer, Hein (2014). "Blagar". In Schapper, Antoinette (ed.). The Papuan Languages of Timor, Alor and Pantar: Volume 1: Sketch Grammars. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 147–219. ISBN 9781614515241.
Steinhauer, Hein; Gomang, Hendrik D.R. (2016). Kamus Blagar-Indonesia-Inggris: Blagar-Indonesian-English Dictionary. ISBN 978-602-433-356-0.
External links
Alphabet and pronunciation
Audio speech of the Pura dialect of Blagar
Description of the Blagar language
Blagar Swadesh list at TransNewGuinea.org
Blagar Swadesh List by The Rosetta Project at the Internet Archive
Genesis, Mark, and Acts in the Pura dialect of the Blagar language of Indonesia
Blagar Dadibira Collection at The Language Archive
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Bahasa Blagar
- Bahasa Klon
- Bahasa Banjar
- Rumpun bahasa Alor–Pantar
- Bahasa Bengkulu
- Bahasa Melayu Riau
- Bahasa Sunda
- Bahasa Batak Mandailing
- Bahasa Melayu Bacan
- Blagar language
- Moso (sword)
- Alor–Pantar languages
- Malay language
- Indonesian language
- Pantar
- Retta language
- Languages of Indonesia
- Malayic languages
- Javanese language
