Evidence of contact with Malay/Indonesian in the Enggano Language

This paper presents evidence of contact with Malay/Indonesian in the Enggano language by comparing a corpus collected by Hans Kähler in 1930s with a contemporary corpus collected as part of an ongoing documentation project since 2018. We demonstrate that Contemporary Enggano has a much higher rate o...

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Published inNusa Vol. 75; no. 1; pp. 19 - 51
Main Authors Charlotte Hemmings, I Wayan Arka
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Universitas Katolik Indonesia Atma Jaya, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies 30.09.2023
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ISSN0126-2874
2187-7297
DOI10.15026/0002000126

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Summary:This paper presents evidence of contact with Malay/Indonesian in the Enggano language by comparing a corpus collected by Hans Kähler in 1930s with a contemporary corpus collected as part of an ongoing documentation project since 2018. We demonstrate that Contemporary Enggano has a much higher rate of lexical borrowings and code-switching, and has undergone contact-induced change at the level of phonology, morphology and syntax. We interpret this as evidence of increased contact, reflecting changes in the status and usage of Malay/Indonesian in daily life on Enggano, in keeping with the context of language endangerment.
ISSN:0126-2874
2187-7297
DOI:10.15026/0002000126