| Manggarai | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Flores |
| Ethnicity | Manggarai |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 900,000)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mqy |
| Glottolog | mang1405 Manggarai |
TheManggarai language (tombo Manggarai,Indonesian:bahasa Manggarai) is the language of theManggarai people from the western parts of the island ofFlores, inEast Nusa Tenggara Province,Indonesia.
Manggarai is the native language of theManggarai people ofFlores island inEast Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia. Based on statistical data reported by theCentral Agency on Statistics (BPS) in 2009, it is the native language of more than 730,000 people in the province ofEast Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia.[2]
Outside Flores, there was once a small minority of Manggarai-speaking people in the village of Manggarai located in the eastern part of Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. Formerly a neighbourhood in the capital with a large concentration of transmigrant workers from the Greater Manggarai region ofNusa Tenggara Timur, the neighbourhood's populace today from the said area has been decreasing (due to factors such as return to their ancestral village, intermarriage with different ethnic groups, etc.) for it is now populated by the majority nativeBetawi ethnic group.
The Manggarai language is part of theAustronesian family, and is therefore related toIndonesian and otherMalay varieties. Most speakers of Manggarai also speak Indonesian for official and commercial purposes and to communicate with non-Manggarai Indonesians (including citizens of the same province from different diverse ethnic groups).Riung is often considered a dialect of Maranggai or a separate language.
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | ||
| prenasal vl. | ᵐp | ⁿt | ⁿtʃ | ᵑk | ||
| prenasal vd. | ᵐb | ⁿd | ⁿdʒ | ᵑɡ | ||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Fricative | v | s | h | |||
| Lateral | l | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Approximant | j | |||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
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