Belait, ko Lemeting, yaren Malayo-Polynesia ne na Brunei da makwabciyar Malaysia. Mutanen Belait ne ke magana da shi waɗanda galibi ke zaune a gundumar Belait ta Brunei. An kiyasta cewa akwai masu magana 700 a cikin 1995. [2]

Harshen belait
Lamban rijistar harshe
ISO 639-3 beg
Glottolog bela1260[1]
Belait
kuala belait

Belait yana da alaƙa da harsunan Miri, Kiput da Narum na Sarawak. Ana la'akari da shi wani ɓangare na rukunin ƙananan Baram na harsunan Arewa Sarawak. [3]

Akwai yaruka huɗu masu fahimtar juna na Belait. [4] Ana magana da waɗannan a manyan yankuna biyu:

  • A kauyukan Kuala Balai da Labi
  • A cikin gundumar Kiudang na Tutong

Yaruka daban-daban na Belait - Metting da Bong - ana magana da su a cikin ƙauyen Mungkom, Kiudang. [4] Akwai ƙananan masu magana da kowane yare.

Fassarar sauti

gyara sashe

Gabaɗaya nassoshi game da phonology na Belait sun haɗa da Martin (1990) akan Metteng Belait [4] [5] da Noor Alifah Abdullah (1992) akan Labi Belait. [4] [6] Wannan zane yana dogara ne akan yaren Metteng (Clynes 2005). Sauran yarukan na iya bambanta a cikin phonology da ƙamus.

Consonants

gyara sashe
Labial Apical Laminal Dorsal Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Plosives voiceless p t c k ʔ
voiced b d ɟ g
Masu saɓo s ʁ h
Lantarki l
Glides w j

Meteng Belait yana da wasulan monophthong guda biyar /i, u, e, o, a/</link> . Akwai diphthong guda ɗaya /iə/</link> .

Lambar wayar /e/</link> an fahimta kamar yadda [ə]</link> a cikin kalmomin da ba na ƙarshe ba, kuma kamar yadda [ɛ]</link> kuma [e]</link> a cikin kalmomin ƙarshe. [4]

Tsarin Harafi

gyara sashe

Tushen lexical disyllabic . Kalmomin ƙarshe sune yawanci (C)V((C)C). Wadanda ba na karshe ba yawanci ((C)C)V(C). [4]

Azuzuwan kalmomi

gyara sashe

Manyan azuzuwan kalmomi a cikin Belait sune fi'ili da sunaye . Ana iya bambanta azuzuwan biyu ta hanyar rarraba su, tsari da aikinsu. Misali, ana soke fi'ili tare da sigar (e)ndeh</link> and nouns with form kay'</link> :

Manazarta

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  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Harshen belait". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Martin, Peter W. 1995. 'Whither the indigenous languages of Brunei Darussalam?' Oceanic Linguistics 34:44–60
  3. Blust, Robert. 1997. 'Ablaut in Western Borneo'. Diachronica XIV:1–30.
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 Clynes, Adrian. 2005. 'Belait'. In Nikolaus P. Himmelmann & Alexander Adelaar (eds.) The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar. Abingdon: Routledge.
  5. Martin, Peter W. 1990. Notes on the Phonology of Belait. Unpublished MS.
  6. Noor Alifah Abdullah. 1992. Struktur bahasa Belait. Unpublished BA Thesis, Department of Malay Language and Linguistics, Universiti Brunei Darussalam.