Nasal language

Nasal
Nasal
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Southwestern Sumatra
Native speakers	3,000 (2008)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Nasal; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nsy
Glottolog	nasa1239
ELP	Nasal

Nasal (['nasal]) is an Austronesian language of southwestern Sumatra. Anderbeck & Aprilani (2013) consider Nasal to be an isolate within the Malayo-Polynesian branch.

Location

Nasal is spoken in the Nasal River area of Kaur Regency, Bengkulu Province, Sumatra, in the villages of Tanjung Betuah, Gedung Menung (both in Muara Nasal district), and Tanjung Baru (in Maje district). There are many loanwords from Lampung.^[2] Languages spoken near the Nasal area include the Krui dialect of Lampung and the Malay lects Kaur, Bengkulu, Serawai and Semenda (Anderbeck & Aprilani 2013:3).

References

^ Nasal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ http://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/numeral/Nasal.htm

Anderbeck, Karl; Aprilani, Herdian. 2013. The Improbable Language: Survey Report on the Nasal Language of Bengkulu, Sumatra. SIL Electronic Survey Report. SIL International.

External links

Nasal numerals

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[e18-1] Nasal at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[2] ttp://lingweb.eva.mpg.de/numeral/Nasal.htm

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