Some problems of the phonology of metropolitan Indonesian
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2851807 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Waruno Mahdi (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 137 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 399-418 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-90003489 |
| OpenAlex | W2091356680 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
The phonology of Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) still poses several problems, in particular as regards the so-called loaned phonemes, i.e. phonemes which appeared in Malay and Indonesian as a result of word-borrowing fom Sanskrit, Arabic, Persian and, in more recent times, from Dutch and other European languages. The language commonly designated as Bahasa Indonesia actually represents a large number of dialects and subdialects, not only territo rial and ethnic, but also social and stylistic ones. The situation is further complicated for the phonologist by the fact that the over whelming majority of Indonesian speakers are bilingual and speak Indonesian as a second language, with predictable consequences for their pronunciation. It is therefore not surprising that even a superficial inspection of an Indonesian dictionary will reveal an astonishing number of doublets and variants of words. But the alternation of phonemes and sound shifts in these doublets and variants can only be relevant for a description of the system of phonemes insofar as these phenomena represent a dialectally compact corpus, i.e. one freed from dialectal variation. Operating with a dia lectally mixed corpus necessarily leads to an over-representation of doublets and variants, which can only obscure phonological regulari ties, tendencies, and correspondences.1 It has become a tradition to regard North Sumatran Indonesian
Alternation (linguistics · Indonesian · Linguistics · Malay · Phonology · Pronunciation · Sanskrit · Sound change · Variation (astronomy · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2003 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |