Banjar language
Especially on the island of Kalimantan, Banjarese can be considered as a lingua franca, as it is used widely in three of the four provinces of Kalimantan: South Kalimantan, East Kalimantan, and Central Kalimantan, with the exception of West Kalimantan, where Malay is more popular.
Banjarese is considered to be local Malay, but it isn't particularly close to other Malayic languages. It is divided into two major dialects; the upper river and down river (Banjar Kuala) dialects. The main differences of the two dialects can be found in phonology and lexicons, although slight differences in syntactic structure can also be noticed. Banjar Hulu has only three vowels, namely /i/, /u/, and /a/. When a word contains vowels other than these three, the foreign vowel will be replaced with one of them based on the closeness of height and other quality of the vowels.
For example, Banjarese speaker trying to pronounce the English word "logo" will sound like pronouncing the Indonesian word for innocent, "lugu". The Indonesian word "orang" for human will be pronounced "urang". The word "kemana" will be pronounced and even many times spelled "kamana". Other distinctive characteristic of the Banjar Hulu dialect is that words beginning with a vowel are most likely to be pronounced with an /h/ sound in front of the words. The addition of the /h/ sound can also be noticed in the spelling.
| Banjar Kuala has five | vowels, /a, i, u, e, o/. |
| A minor dialect, Bukit, code. | is assigned a separate ISO - |
Related Sites for Banjar language
- Banjar of Indonesia Ethnic People Profile read Banjar language
- The qualities of a good translator, by Dr. Shadia Y. Banjar read Banjar language
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