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The Bahnar language or Ba-Na language (Vietnamese pronunciation: [βəna:]) is a Central Bahnaric language. It has nine vowel qualities and phonemic vowel length.

Bahnar
Bana
Native toVietnam
EthnicityBahnar people
Native speakers
160,000 in Viet Nam (1999 census)[1]
Language family
Austroasiatic
  • Bahnaric
    • North
      • Bahnar
Writing system
Latin
(adapted Vietnamese)
Language codes
ISO 639-3bdq
Glottologbahn1262

Subdivisions


Đào (1998)[2] lists the following subgroups of Bahnar and their respective locations.

Bùi (2011:5-6)[3] lists the following subgroups of Bahnar and their respective locations.


Phonology



Consonants


Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive voiceless p t k ʔ
voiced b d ɡ
preglottal ʔb ʔd ʔdʑ
Nasal plain m n ɲ ŋ
preglottal ʔm ʔn ʔɲ ʔŋ
Fricative s h
Rhotic r
Approximant plain w l j
preglottal ʔw ʔl ʔj
Final consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive p t k ʔ
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Aspirate jh* h
Rhotic r
Approximant w l j

*-In the final sequence /jh/, /h/ is not pronounced and /j/ is pronounced phonetically as a short vowel /i/.[4]


Vowels


Front Central Back
Close i iː ɨː u uː
Mid ə əː
Open ɛ ɛː a aː ɔ ɔː

Also used in Vietnam


Other minor groups include the Kon Kđe, Bơ Nơm, and A Roh subgroups in Kông Chro District and K'Bang District of Gia Lai Province (Bùi 2011:6).

Ethnologue lists the following dialects of Bahnar.


References


  1. Bahnar at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Đào Huy Quyền. 1998. Nhạc khí dân tộc Jrai và Bahnar [Musical instruments of the Jrai and Bahnar]. Hanoi: Nhà xuất bản trẻ.
  3. Bùi Minh Đạo. 2011. The Bahnar people in Viet Nam. Hanoi: Thế Giới Publishers. ISBN 978-604-77-0319-7
  4. Banker, John & Elizabeth; Mo', Siu (1979). Bahnar Dictionary, Plei Bong-Mang Yang Dialect. Huntingdon Beach, Summer Institute of Linguistics. pp. vi–xii.




На других языках


- [en] Bahnar language

[fr] Bahnar (langue)

Le bahnar est une langue bahnarique parlée au Viêt Nam.



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