Kenaboi language
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Native to | ?)
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ISO 639-3 | xbn |
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Glottolog | kena1236 |
Kĕnaboi is an extinct unclassified language of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia that may be a language isolate or an Austroasiatic language belonging to the Aslian branch. It is attested in what appears to be two dialects,[1][2] based on word lists of about 250 lexical items, presumably collected around 1870–90.
Background
In Walter William Skeat and Charles Otto Blagden's 1906 work "Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula",[3] the contents of three previously unpublished wordlists appear, two of which were collected by D.F.A. Hervey, a former government official in Malacca. There is no indication as to when these word lists were collected; however, there is a possibility that these wordlists were collected around the 1870s to 1890s.[4]
Hervey collected his Kenaboi lexicon in
Classification
Hammarström, et al.
See also
- Kenaboi word list (Wiktionary)
- Andamanese languages
- Philippine Negrito languages
- Proto-Aslian language
- Kusunda language
Other Southeast Asian languages with high proportions of unique vocabulary of possible isolate origin:
- Enggano language (Indonesia)
- Manide language (Philippines)
- Umiray Dumaget language (Philippines)
Notes
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- ^ 0m1-kdt in MultiTree.
- ^ Skeat & Blagden 1906
- ^ a b c Hajek 1998
- ^ Skeat & Blagden 1906, pp. 497–498
- ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Kenaboi language". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ^ Phillips 2012
References
- Skeat, W. W.; Blagden, C. O. (1906). Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula. Vol. 2. London: Macmillan and Co.
- Hajek, John (1998). "Kenaboi: An Extinct Unclassified Language of the Malay Peninsula" (PDF). Mon-Khmer Studies. 28: 137–149. .
- Phillips, Timothy C. (2012). Proto-Aslian: Towards an Understanding of Its Historical Linguistic Systems, Principles and Processes (Ph.D. thesis). Institut Alam Dan Tamadun Melayu Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi.
Further reading
- Benjamin, Geoffrey. 2006. Hervey's 'Kenaboi': Lost Malayan Language or Forest-Collecting Taboo Jargon?. Singapore.
- Hajek, John. 1996. The Mystery of the Kenaboi: A First Report. Royal Institute of Linguistics and Anthropology. (International workshop on South-East Asian studies; No. 11. (The study of) endangered languages and literatures of South-East Asia).