Reflexes of Proto-Austronesia into Buru Language: Preliminary Step of Testing Collins Hypothesis (1981)

DOI

10.2991/icla-17.2018.28How to use a DOI?

Keywords

reflex, Proto-Austronesian, Buru language, Collins hypothesis (1981)

Abstract

This paper intends to explain two issues, the Proto-Austronesian reflex (PAN) into Buru language (Br) and its correspondence with Collins's (1981) view. A PAN top-down approach reconstructed by Blust and Trussel (2015) is employed to see the realization in Buru. The data that have been collected using direct interview are 200 basic vocabulary revised by Blust (1980) and approximately 800 cultural vocabularies. The results identify that (1) Buru speech sounds that tend to innovate from PAN, ie * k, * b, * q, * h, * S, * C, * d , * z, * ay, and * uy; (2) Buru speech sounds that tend to retain, ie * p, * t, * g, * ŋ, * m, * w, * s, * r, * l, * a, * u, * i, * ǝ ; (3) not found PAN * t that change to / f / in Buru as proof of unity with Sula and Taliabo as well as proof of separation with Ambelau language. PAN * t in the initial and middle position only changes to / t /, / n /, and / õ /.

Copyright

© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

Download article (PDF)

TY  - CONF
AU  - Sumarlam SUMARLAM
AU  - Djatmika DJATMIKA
AU  - Dwi PURNANTO
AU  - Burhanuddin BURHANUDDIN
PY  - 2017/10
DA  - 2017/10
TI  - Reflexes of Proto-Austronesia into Buru Language: Preliminary Step of Testing Collins Hypothesis (1981)
BT  - Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Languages and Arts (ICLA 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 160
EP  - 168
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icla-17.2018.28
DO  - 10.2991/icla-17.2018.28
ID  - SUMARLAM2017/10
ER  -