| Blagar | |
|---|---|
| pi abaŋ hur | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Pantar Island |
| Ethnicity | Blagar |
Native speakers | 10,000 (2014)[1] |
Trans–New Guinea ?
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| Latin script | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | beu |
| Glottolog | blag1240 |
| ELP | Blagar |
 Languages of the Alor Islands; Blagar is shown in yellow. | |
Blagar is aPapuan language ofPantar island in theAlor archipelago ofIndonesia. TheTereweng dialect spoken onTereweng Island off the southeast coast of Pantar[2] is sometimes considered a separate language.[3] The Blagar speakers themselves describe their language aspi abaŋ hur (lit. 'our village language').[4][5]
The increasing prominence ofIndonesian andAlor Malay has been putting pressure on the Blagar language although the language is still used by all age groups.[4] By the 1970s, Indonesian and Alor Malay replaced Blagar as the language of churches and mosques, and in the early 2000s the spread of Indonesian and Alor Malay was furthered by the introduction of electricity onPura Island.[4]
Blagar has five vowels, with a sharp contrast between short and long vowels.[6]
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | /i/ /i:/ | /u/ /u:/ |
| Mid | /e/ /e:/ | /o/ /o:/ |
| Open | /a/ /a:/ | |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p b | t̪ d | k g | ʔ | |
| Implosive | ɓ | ||||
| Fricative | s z | h | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||
| Trill | r | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||
| Approximant | j |
Themorphological typology of Blagar is categorized asisolating.[8]
Blagar uses the 26 letters of theISO basic Latin alphabet, and has twodigraphs:⟨ng⟩ and⟨sy⟩.
| Uppercase letters | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowercase letters | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z |
| IPA | /a/ | /b/ | /t͡ʃ/ | /d/ | /e/ | /f/ | /g/ | /h/ | /i/ | /d͡ʒ/ | /k/ | /l/ | /m/ | /n/ | /o/ | /p/ | /k/,/q/ | /r/~/ɾ/ | /s/ | /t/ | /u/ | /f/,/v/ | /w/ | /ks/ | /j/ | /s/,/z/ |
| Digraphs | ng | sy |
|---|---|---|
| IPA | /ŋ/ | /ʃ/ |
⟨c⟩,⟨q⟩,⟨x⟩,⟨z⟩ and⟨sy⟩ are only used in foreign place names and loanwords.[3]
Another writing system is also used, which is phonemic and is similar to the writing system of Indonesian.[9]
| Letters | a | b | b’ | d | e | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | ng | o | p | q | r | t | u | v | y |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IPA | /a/ | /b/ | /ɓ/ | /d/ | /e/ | /g/ | /h/ | /i/ | /ɟ/,/ɟ͡ʝ/ | /k/ | /l/ | /m/ | /n/ | /ŋ/ | /o/ | /p/ | /ʔ/ | /r/ | /t/ | /u/ | /w/ | /j/ |
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