| Sigulai | |
|---|---|
| Dau Batu[1] | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Simeulue,Aceh |
| Ethnicity | Sigulai |
Native speakers | (undated figure of 20,000)[2] |
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | skh |
| Glottolog | siku1242 |
TheSigulai language (also calledSibigo,Sikule,Ageumeui, orWali Banuah) is anAustronesian language spoken onSimeulue island off the western coast ofSumatra inIndonesia.[3] It belongs to theMalayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages. Sikule is one ofNorthwest Sumatra–Barrier Islands languages, which are a sub-group ofWestern Malayo-Polynesian.[4]
Sikule is spoken inSalang,Alafan andSimeulue Baratdistrict, on the northern ofSimeulue island. It is apparently related to theNias language.[5]Ethnologue listsLekon andTapah as dialects.[2]
Simeulue is spoken in the rest of Simeulue outside of Alafan, whileJamu (also calledKamano), related toMinangkabau, is spoken in the capital city ofSinabang.
The vowel and consonant phonemes of Sikule are shown in the tables below.[6]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | ɨ | u |
| Mid | e | ə | o |
| Open | a |
| Labial | Alveolar | Post-alveolar/ Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Plosive/ Affricate | voiceless | p | t | t͡ʃ | k | (ʔ) |
| voiced | b | d | d͡ʒ | ɡ | ||
| Fricative | s | x | h | |||
| Approximant | central | j | ||||
| lateral | l | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
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