A Further Ethnography of the Binajau Tambacan Community and Morphology of the Sinama Variety
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6015016 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Keven Opamin, Brigette C Licayan, Keven O Opamin |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 49-83 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Asian Linguistic Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2207-0656 • E-ISSN: 2207-0656 |
| Publisher | GLOCAL (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.47298/jala.v7-i3-a3 |
| OpenAlex | W4415586902 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
The Sinama languages are spoken in the Sulu Archipelago, Sabah, and Eastern Indonesia, and are known as ‘Bajau’ or ‘Sama-Bajau.’ The Bajau, also known as Sama, are a culturally and linguistically diverse people residing primarily in the southern-central Philippines and eastern regions of Indonesia and Malaysia. As Bajau women are more prone to interaction owing to their domesticated duties, we sought to investigate the morphologies of Binajau-Tambacan, a Sinama variety spoken by the Bajau Women in Barangay Tambacan, Iligan City. The morphological analysis is divided into two parts: identifying morphemes and investigating morphological processes, ultimately classifying the Sinama dialect of Binajau Tambacan. The data set contains 195 Binajau Tambacan morphemes, including 138 lexical morphemes, 20 grammatical/functional morphemes, and seven bound morphemes. Findings indicate that a variety of morphological processes is emerging in Binajau Tambacan affixations, reduplication, borrowing, and indigenization, indicating that Bajau Women have the highest degree of similarity to Central Sinama, at 82%, classifying the variety as Central Sinama
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |