Duanoʼ language

Duanoʼ
RegionIndonesia (Sumatra),
Malaysia (Malay Peninsula)
EthnicityOrang Kuala
Native speakers
16,000 (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3dup
Glottologduan1242
ELPDuano'

Duanoʼ is a Malayic language of Indonesia and Malaysia. In Malaysia the language is moribund, being spoken by only a tenth of the ethnic population.

While Duanoʼ is usually considered a Malayic language, it contains a significant amount of words derived from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian that do not follow Malayic sound changes, such as *qulu > kulu "head" and *qatay > ɣati "liver", which indicates that Duanoʼ was originally a non-Malayic language that underwent heavy Malayic influence.

References

  1. ^ Duanoʼ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)


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