Komering language

Komering
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Sumatra
Ethnicity	Komering people
Native speakers	470,000 (2000 census)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear Malayo-Polynesia Sunda-Sulawesi Lampungic Komering
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kge
Glottolog	kome1238

Three Komering girls in 1929

Komering is a Malayo-Polynesian language spoken in Indonesia, in the southern part of Sumatra.

Location

Komering in the Lampung Province in southern Sumatra, along the Komering River.

Classification

Komering belongs to the group of Lampung languages, one of the groups within the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian family. Walker regards Komering as a mere dialect, presenting Lampung as a single language instead of a group of languages; others treat it as a dialect specifically of Lampung Api.

Vocabulary

Examples of basic Komering words:

English	Komering	Indonesian/Malay
tree	kayu	kayu ("wood")
ashes	habu	abu
world	tanoh	tanah
grass	jukuk	rumput
egg	hatolui	telur
three	tolu	tiga
five	lima	lima
rain	hujau	hujan
to steal	hambur	hambur ("to waste")
egg	tohlui	telur
four	pak	empat
naw	ganta	sekarang

Sources

• Template:En icon Adelaar, Alexander, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar: A Historical Perspective, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, pp. 1–42, Routledge Language Family Series, Londres, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-7007-1286-0
• Template:En icon Walker, Dale F., A Lexical Study of Lampung Dialects, Miscellaneous Studies in Indonesian and Languages in Indonesia, Part I (éditeur: John W. M. Verhaar), NUSA Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages of Indonesia, Volume 1, pp. 11–21, Jakarta, Badan Penyelenggara Seri NUSA, 1975.
• Template:En icon Walker, Dale F., A Grammar of the Lampung Language: the Pesisir Dialect of Way Lima, NUSA Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages of Indonesia, Volume 2, Jakarta, Badan Penyelenggara Seri NUSA, 1976.