Back نجادها ARZ Ngada (Sprache) German Ngadha (langue) French Bahasa Ngada ID Asụsụ Ngadha IG Pagsasao a Ngadha ILO Ngadha Dutch Język ngadha Polish Lenga Ngad'a PMS Kingad'a Swahili
| Ngadha | |
|---|---|
| Bahasa Ngadha | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Flores |
Native speakers | (ca. 65,000 cited 1994–1995)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:nxg – Ngadʼanea – Eastern Ngadʼa |
| Glottolog | ngad1261 |
Ngadha (IPA: [ŋaᶑa], also spelled Ngada, Ngadʼa or Ngaʼda[2]) is an Austronesian language, one of six languages spoken in the central stretch of the Indonesian island of Flores.[3] From west to east these languages are Ngadha, Nage, Keo, Ende, Lio, and Palu'e. These languages form the proposed Central Flores group of the Sumba–Flores languages, according to Blust (2009).[4]
Djawanai (1983) precises that Ngadha somewhat deviates from Austronesian norms, in that words do not have clear cognates and the grammatical processes are different;[5] for example, the Austronesian family of languages makes an abundant use of prefixes or suffixes (which form new words by adding extensions either before or after root-words, such as [per-]form or child[-hood]), whereas the Ngadha language uses no prefixes or suffixes.[6]
Ngadha is one of the few languages with a retroflex implosive /ᶑ /.
- ^ Ngadʼa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Eastern Ngadʼa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) - ^ Djawanai, Stephanas; Grimes, Charles E. (1985). "Ngada". In Darrell T. Tryon (ed.). Comparative Austronesian Dictionary: An Introduction to Austronesian Studies. Berlin: Mouton De Gruyter. pp. 593–599. doi:10.1515/9783110884012.1.593.
- ^ "Introduction". Rongga Documentation Project. Archived from the original on 2006-08-24. Retrieved 2006-12-19.
- ^ Blust, Robert (2008). "Is There a Bima-Sumba Subgroup?". Oceanic Linguistics. 47 (1): 45–113. doi:10.1353/ol.0.0006. JSTOR 20172340. S2CID 144311741.
- ^ Djawanai 1983, p. 2.
- ^ Peter ten Hoopen. "Ikat from Ngadha, Indonesia". ikat.us. Online Museum of Indonesian ikat textiles, curator: Dr Peter Ten Hoopen. Retrieved 2024-06-08.