| Berau Malay | |
|---|---|
| basa Barrau,basa Banua | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Ethnicity | Berau Malays |
Native speakers | 11,000 (2007)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bve |
| Glottolog | bera1262 |
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Berau Malay, or simplyBerau, is aMalayic language spoken byBerau Malays inBerau Regency,East Kalimantan, Indonesia. It is one three native Malayic varieties in southern and eastern Borneo, along withBanjar andKutainese, of which it forms adialect continuum. According to the 2007 edition ofEthnologue, there were 11,200 speakers of Berau Malay.
Berau has received little attention by foreign linguists. According toJames T. Collins in 2006, it is characterized by loss of glottal consonants*ʔ and*h, and the sequence*-əC- became into-aCC (also shared byMakassarese). The latter change has created contrastivegemination in the language, such astabu 'mosque drum' vs.tabbu 'sugar cane' (←*təbu) andini 'this' vs.inni 'grandparent'. Berau has a very small vowel inventory, consisting of/a/,/i/, and/u/. Collins stated that Berau is most closely related to theKota Bangun dialect of Kutainese. It also appears to bemutually intelligible withBrunei Malay orBanjarese.[2]
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