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Komering is a Lampungic language spoken by Komering people, an indigenous ethnic group native to Komering regions alongside the Komering River in southern hemisphere of Sumatra island Indonesia.

Komering
Cawa Komering
Native to	Indonesia
Region	South Sumatra
Ethnicity	Komering
Native speakers	470,000 (2000 census)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Lampungic Komering
Writing system	Lampung script (historical) Latin Komering Script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	kge
Glottolog	kome1238
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Location

Komering in the Lampung Province, South Sumatra Province in southern Sumatra, along the Komering River.

Classification

Komering language belongs to the Lampungic linguistic family, which is one of the groups within the Austronesian family.[2][3]

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Plosive/ Affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ	k	ʔ
	voiced	b	d	dʒ	ɡ
Fricative			s			h
Lateral			l
Trill			r
Approximant		w		j

A voiced fricative /z/ also occurs, but only as a result of foreign loanwords.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid			o
Open		a

Vocabulary

Examples of basic Komering words:[4]

Komering (standard)	Meaning
kayu	tree
habu	ashes
tanoh	world
jukuk	grass
hatolui	egg
tolu	three
hujau	rain
hambur	to steal
tohlui	egg
pak	four
ganta	now
ompai	new
sisu	chicken
manuk	bird

Notes and references

Sources

• Adelaar, Alexander, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar: A Historical Perspective, The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, pp. 1–42, Routledge Language Family Series, Londres, Routledge, 2005, ISBN 0-7007-1286-0
• Walker, Dale F., A Lexical Study of Lampung Dialects, Miscellaneous Studies in Indonesian and Languages in Indonesia, Part I (editor: John W. M. Verhaar), NUSA Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages of Indonesia, Volume 1, pp. 11–21, Jakarta, Badan Penyelenggara Seri NUSA, 1975.
• Walker, Dale F., A Grammar of the Lampung Language: the Pesisir Dialect of Way Lima, NUSA Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages of Indonesia, Volume 2, Jakarta, Badan Penyelenggara Seri NUSA, 1976.
• Sofjan Abdurrahman, and Colin Yallop. A Brief Outline of Komering Phonology and Morphology, Miscellaneous studies in Indonesian and languages in Indonesia, Part VI (editor: Amran Halim), NUSA Linguistic Studies in Indonesian and Languages of Indonesia, Volume 7, pp. 11-18, Jakarta, Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, 1979.

See also

На других языках

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- [en] Komering language

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[fr] Komering

Le komering est une langue malayo-polynésienne parlée en Indonésie, dans le sud de l'île de Sumatra.

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[ru] Комеринг (язык)

Язык комеринг (индон. Bahasa Komering) входит в состав австронезийской семьи, распространён в провинции Лампунг на юге Суматры. По данным Ethnologue, количество носителей данного языка составляло 470 тыс. чел. в 2000 году[1]. В основном, на этом языке говорят в долине одноимённой реки  (англ.) (рус..

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