Greater North Borneo languages
Greater North Borneo | |
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Geographic distribution | Historically: most of Borneo and Sumatra, western Java and Mainland Southeast Asia
Nowadays: Throughout Western Indonesian ?
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Subdivisions | |
Glottolog | nort3253 (partial match) |
The Greater North Borneo languages are a proposed subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The subgroup historically covers languages that are spoken throughout much of Borneo (excluding the southeastern area where the Greater Barito languages are spoken) and Sumatra, as well as parts of Java, and Mainland Southeast Asia. The Greater North Borneo hypothesis was first proposed by Robert Blust (2010) and further elaborated by Alexander Smith (2017a, 2017b).[1][2][3] The evidence presented for this proposal are solely lexical.[4] Despite its name, this branch has been now widespread within the Maritime Southeast Asia region.
The proposed subgroup covers some of the major languages in
Since Greater North Borneo also includes the Malayic, Chamic, and Sundanese languages, it is incompatible with Alexander Adelaar's
History
Blust connects the GNB expansion with the migration of Austronesian speakers into
Classification
Blust (2010)
Robert Blust proposed a set of
- Greater North Borneo
- North Borneo
- Kayanic
- Land Dayak
- Bekati
- Bidayuh-Southern Land Dayak
- Malayo-Chamic
- Sundanese
- Rejang
- Moken
While Blust assumed that all languages of Borneo other than those in Greater Barito subgroup with GNB,[1] he does not attempt to explicitly classify several languages, including those with insufficient available data.[10][11]
- (unclassified)
- Melanau
- Kajang
Smith (2017a, 2017b)
Smith recognizes an independent Central Sarawak branch within Greater North Borneo, combining the Melanau, Kajang and Punan–Müller-Schwaner languages.[12] Additionally, he also excludes Moklenic from GNB and places it all the way up as one of the primary branches of Malayo-Polynesian.[3]
- Greater North Borneo
- North Borneo
- Central Sarawak
- Melanau
- Kajang
- Punan–Müller-Schwaner
- Kayanic
- Land Dayak
- Bekati
- Bidayuh-Southern Land Dayak
- Malayo-Chamic
- Sundanese
- Rejang
Proto-
Austroasiatic influence
According to
Blench (2010) claims that lexical forms shared among Bornean and Austroasiatic languages include 'rain', 'to die', 'back (of body)', 'flying lemur', 'monkey', 'barking deer', 'lizard', and 'taro'.
Kaufman (2018) presents further evidence of words in various Austronesian languages of Borneo that are of likely Austroasiatic origin.[15]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Blust 2010, pp. 44, 47.
- ^ Smith 2017a, p. 346–364.
- ^ a b Smith 2017b, p. 459–460.
- ^ Blust 2010, p. 68.
- ^ Blust 2013, p. 65.
- ^ Blust 2010, p. 81.
- ^ Adelaar 2005.
- ^ Blust 2010, p. 45.
- ^ Blust 2010, p. 48.
- ^ Blust 2010, pp. 52–53.
- ^ Smith 2017a, p. 28.
- ^ Smith 2017a, p. 319.
- ^ Smith 2017a, p. 49–50.
- .
- ^ Kaufman, Daniel. 2018. Between mainland and island Southeast Asia: Evidence for a Mon-Khmer presence in Borneo. Ronald and Janette Gatty Lecture Series. Kahin Center for Advanced Research on Southeast Asia, Cornell University. (handout / slides)
Bibliography
- Adelaar, Alexander (2005). "Malayo-Sumbawan". Oceanic Linguistics. 44 (2): 357–388. JSTOR 3623345.
- Blust, Robert (2010). "The Greater North Borneo Hypothesis". Oceanic Linguistics. 49 (1): 44–118. JSTOR 40783586.
- Blust, Robert (2013). The Austronesian languages. Asia-Pacific Linguistics 8 (revised ed.). Canberra: Asia-Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. ISBN 9781922185075.
- Smith, Alexander D. (2017a). The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification (PDF) (Ph.D. Dissertation). University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
- Smith, Alexander D. (2017b). "The Western Malayo-Polynesian Problem". Oceanic Linguistics. 56 (2): 435–490. .
Further reading
- Adelaar, Alexander; Himmelmann, Nikolaus, eds. (2005). The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. London: Routledge. ISBN 9780700712861.
- Blust, Robert; Smith, Alexander D. (2014). A Bibliography of the Languages of Borneo (and Madagascar). Phillips, Maine: Borneo Research Council. ISBN 9781929900152.
- Lobel, Jason William (2016). North Borneo Sourcebook: Vocabularies and Functors. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 9780824857790.