Manado Malay
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| Manado Malay | |
|---|---|
| Bahasa Manado | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | North Sulawesi |
Native speakers | 850,000 (2001)[1] |
Malay Creole
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| ISO 639-3 | xmm |
| Glottolog | mala1481 |
Manado Malay,or simply theManado language,is acreole languagespoken inManado,the capital ofNorth Sulawesiprovince inIndonesia,and the surrounding area. The local name of the language isbahasa Manado,and the nameMinahasa Malayis also used,[2]after the main ethnic group speaking the language. Since Manado Malay is used primarily for spoken communication, there is no standard orthography.
Manado Malay differs from standard Malay in having numerousPortuguese,Dutch,Spanish,andTernateloan words, as well as having traits such as its use ofkitaas a first person singular pronoun, rather than as a first personinclusiveplural pronoun. It is derived fromNorth Moluccan Malay(Ternate Malay), which can be evidenced by the number of Ternate loanwords in its lexicon.[3]For example, the pronounsngana('you', singular) andngoni('you', plural) are ofTernate–Tidoreorigin.[4]Manado Malay has been displacing the indigenous languages of the area.[5]
Phonology
[edit]Vowels
[edit]The vowel system of Manado Malay consists of five vowel phonemes.[6]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Low | a |
Consonants
[edit]Manado Malay has nineteen consonants and two semivowels.[7]
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | |
| Plosive | pb | td | cɟ | kɡ | ʔ |
| Fricative | fv | s | h | ||
| Lateral | l | ||||
| Trill | r | ||||
| Semivowel | w | j |
Stress
[edit]Most words in Manado Malay have stress on the pre-final syllable:
| kadéra | 'chair' |
| sténga | 'half' |
| dói | 'money' |
However, there are also many words with final stress:
| butúl | 'right, correct, true' |
| tolór | 'egg; testicle' |
| capát | 'fast' |
Grammar
[edit]Pronouns
[edit]Personal
[edit]| Pronoun | Standard Indonesian | Manado Malay |
|---|---|---|
| First singular | aku | kita |
| First plural | kami/kita | torang |
| Second singular | kamu | ngana |
| Second plural | kalian | ngoni |
| Third singular | dia | dia |
| Third plural | mereka | dorang |
Possessives
[edit]Possessives are built by addingpeto the personal pronoun or name or noun, then followed by the 'possessed' noun. Thuspehas the function similar to English "'s" as in "the doctor's uniform".
| English | Manado Malay |
|---|---|
| My friend | kita pe tamáng / ta pe tamáng |
| Your (sing.) friend | ngana pe tamáng / nga pe tamáng |
| His/her book | dia pe buku / de pe buku |
| This book is yours (pl.) | ini ngana pe buku |
Interrogative words
[edit]The following are theinterrogative wordsor "w-words" in Manado Malay:
| English | Manado Malay |
|---|---|
| why | kyapa, bakyapa |
| where | (di) mana |
| who | sapa |
| which one(s) | tu mana, yang mana |
Grammatical aspect
[edit]Ada('to be') can be used in Manado Malay to indicate theperfective aspect,e.g.:
- Dorang ada turung pigi Wenang= 'They already went down to Wenang'
- Torang so makang= 'We ate already' or 'We have eaten already'
Nasal final
[edit]The final nasals/m/and/n/in Indonesian are replaced by the "-ng" group in Manado Malay, similar withTerengganu dialectofMalaysia,e.g.:
- makang(Indonesianmakan) = 'to eat',
- jalang(Indonesianjalan) = 'to walk',
- sirang(Indonesiansiram) = 'to shower', etc.
Prefix
[edit]"ba-" prefix
[edit]Theber-prefix in Indonesian, which serves a function similar to the English-ing,is modified intoba-in Manado Malay. E.g.:bajalang(berjalan,'walking'),batobo(berenang,'swimming'),batolor(bertelur,'laying eggs')
"ma(°)-" prefix
[edit]° =ng,n,ormdepending on phonological context.
Theme(°)-prefix in standard Indonesian, which also serves a function to make a verb active, is modified intoma(°)-in Manado Malay. E.g.:mangael(mengail,'hooking fish'),manari(menari,'dancing'),mancari(mencari,'searching'),mamasa(memasak,'cooking'),manangis(menangis,'crying').
Influences
[edit]Loanwords
[edit]Due to the historical presence of theDutchand thePortuguesein eastern Indonesia, several Manado Malay words originate from their languages. However, there is little influence from the localMinahasan languages,and borrowings fromSpanishare not very prominent either – in spite of the historical Spanish dominance – suggesting that Manado Malay was transplanted from outside the Minahasa region.[8]On the other hand, Portuguese influence is comparatively significant,[8]considering that the Portuguese presence in the area was relatively limited.[9]There is also a layer of loanwords from the non-Austronesian language ofTernate,which was controlled by the Portuguese in the period 1512–1655.[8]
| Standard Indonesian | Colloquial Indonesian | Manado Malay loanword | Source language | Source word | English |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| topi | capéo | Portuguese | chapéu | cap, hat | |
| bosan | fastíu | Portuguese | fastio | bored | |
| untuk | for | Dutch | voor | for | |
| garpu | porok | fork | Dutch | vork | fork |
| tenggorokan | gargántang | Portuguese | garganta | throat | |
| kursi | kadèra | kadéra | Portuguese | cadeira | chair |
| bendera | bandéra | Portuguese | bandeira | flag | |
| saputangan | lénso | Portuguese | lenço | handkerchief | |
| tapi | mar | Dutch | maar | but | |
| jagung | mílu | Portuguese | milho | corn, maize | |
| sudah | kêlar | klar | Dutch | klaar | finished |
| paman | om | om | Dutch | oom | uncle |
| nenek | oma | oma | Dutch | oma | grandmother |
| kakek | opa | opa | Dutch | opa | grandfather |
| teduh | sómbar | Portuguese | sombra | shade | |
| keringat | suár | Portuguese | suar | sweat | |
| bibi | tantê | tánte | Dutch | tante | aunt |
| dahi | tésta | Portuguese | testa | forehead, temple | |
| penyu | tuturúga | Portuguese | tartaruga | turtle | |
| sepatu | chapátu | Portuguese | sapato | shoe(s) | |
| kebun | kintál | Portuguese | quintal | (agricultural) field or garden |
Indonesian loanwords from Manado Malay
[edit]Several words in Manado Malay areloanedto standard Indonesian:
- baku(which indicates reciprocality) e.g.:baku hantam('to punch each other'),baku ajar('to hit each other'),baku veto('to debate one another'),baku sedu('to laugh oneselves off'), andbaku dapa('to meet each other'). Originally a loanword from Ternate, it has spread through Manado Malay into other regions of Indonesia.[10]
Examples
[edit]Examples:
- Kita or ta= I
- Ngana or na= you
- Torang or tong= we
- Dorang or dong= they
- Io= yes
- Nyanda’ or Nda= no (' = glottal stop)
Sentences:
- Kita/ta pe mama da pi ka pasar:My mother went to the market
- Nyanda’/Nda’ makang Ngana dari kalamareng.:You haven't eaten since yesterday.
- Jang badusta ngana pa kita!:Don't lie to me!
- Pasti torang/tong bisa!:We can surely it.
References
[edit]- ^Manado MalayatEthnologue(18th ed., 2015)(subscription required)
- ^Stoel 2007,p. 117.
- ^Allen & Hayami-Allen 2002,p. 21.
- ^Bowden 2005,p. 137.
- ^Henley 1996,p. 86.
- ^Warouw 1985,p. viii.
- ^Warouw 1985,p. ix.
- ^abcPrentice 1994,p. 412.
- ^Schouten 1998,p. 39–40.
- ^Prentice 1994,p. 432.
Works cited
[edit]- Allen, Robert B. Jr.; Hayami-Allen, Rika (2002)."Orientation in the Spice Islands"(PDF).In Macken, Marlys (ed.).Papers from the Tenth Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society.Tempe: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University. pp. 21–38.ISBN1-881044-29-7.OCLC50506465.Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2022-12-25.
- Bowden, John(2005)."Language Contact and Metatypic Restructuring in the Directional System of North Maluku Malay"(PDF).Concentric: Studies in Linguistics.31(2): 133–158.doi:10.6241/concentric.ling.200512_31(2).0006.
- Henley, David (1996).Nationalism and regionalism in a colonial context: Minahasa in the Dutch East Indies.Leiden: KITLV Press.
- Prentice, Jack (1994). "Manado Malay: Product and agent of language change". InDutton, Tom;Tryon, Darrell T.(eds.).Language Contact and Change in the Austronesian World.Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 411–442.doi:10.1515/9783110883091.411.ISBN978-3-11-012786-7.
- Schouten, M. J. C. (1998).Leadership and social mobility in a Southeast Asian society: Minahasa, 1677–1983.Leiden: KITLV Press. pp. 39–40.
- Stoel, Ruben (2007). "The Intonation of Manado Malay". In van Heuven, Vincent J.; van Zanten, Ellen (eds.).Prosody in Indonesian Languages.LOT Occasional Series, Vol. 9. Utrecht: LOT, Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics. pp. 117–150.CiteSeerX10.1.1.464.9608.ISBN978-90-78328-44-5.
- Warouw, Martha Salea (1985).Kamus Manado-Indonesia(PDF).Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa.
External links
[edit]
- Alkitab Bahasa Manado,the first Bible translation into Manado Malay (2017).
- Manado Malay-English-Indonesian Dictionary,Webonary.