| Kangean | |
|---|---|
| bĕsa Kangéan | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Kangean Islands |
| Ethnicity | Kangean |
Native speakers | (110,000 cited 2000 census)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Official status | |
| Regulated by |  Language Development and Fostering Agency
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kkv |
| Glottolog | kang1289 |
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Kangean (bĕsa Kangéan) is aAustronesian language spoken by theKangean people, which is anethnic group native toKangean Islands region, north of theBali Sea.[2][3][4] It is native to Kangean and the surrounding islands. The Kangean language is closely related toMadurese and partly mutually intelligible with it, and is often considered a dialect of Madurese.[5]
Viewed from an ethnolinguistic perspective from the discovery of inscriptions on the Kangean Islands, the original Kangean language is unknown or it can be concluded that so far it does not have its own traditional script. From time to time, the use of scripts from other languages has been used to write literary works in the Kangean language, including theCarakan,Lontara,Mangkasara,Pegon, and theLatin scripts which is currently the most frequently used.
The Kangean language is present generally written in the 26-letter Latin script, but the use of the letters ⟨X⟩ and ⟨Z⟩ is generally rare in everyday life except in names. InDutch colonial times, the Latin script used in Kangean had diacritics like the Latin script forOld Javanese used to distinguish sounds in words; for example, the wordtepaq (transl. har. 'appropriate') used to be written astĕppaq, but nowadays Kangean tends to be written without diacritics and has undergone spelling standardization following Javanese spelling but simpler (for example, the wordbathik in Javanese would be spelled asbatik in Kangean).
| Uppercase | Lowercase | IPA |
|---|---|---|
| A | a | /aː/ |
| B | b | /bʱeː/ |
| C | c | /t͡ʃeː/ |
| D | d | /d̪eː/ |
| E | e | /eː/ |
| F | f | /ɛf/ |
| G | g | /geː/ |
| H | h | /haː/ |
| I | i | /iː/ |
| J | j | /d͡ʒeː/ |
| K | k | /kaː/ |
| L | l | /ɛl/ |
| M | m | /ɛm/ |
| N | n | /ɛn/ |
| O | o | /oː/ |
| P | p | /peː/ |
| Q | q | /kɪ/ |
| R | r | /ɛr/ |
| S | s | /ɛs/ |
| T | t | /teː/ |
| U | u | /uː/ |
| V | v | /veː/ |
| W | w | /weː/ |
| X | x | /eːks/ |
| Y | y | /jeː/ |
| Z | z | /zɛt/ |
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