Kerinci (Kinci or Kincai) is a Malayic language spoken in Jambi Province, Sumatra especially in Kerinci Regency and Sungai Penuh city. It has a high dialectical diversity, with dialects including Ulu, Mamaq, Akit, Talang and Sakei.
| Kerinci | |
|---|---|
| Baso Kinci (hulu), Baso Kincai (hilir) | |
| Native to | Indonesia |
| Region | Sumatra |
| Ethnicity | Kerinci |
Native speakers | 290,000 (2000 census)[1] |
| Dialects | Siulak Semurup Rawang Hiang Lempur etc |
| Kaganga, Latin | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | kvr |
| Glottolog | keri1250 |
Van Reijn (1974) notes that Kerinci shares many phonological similarities with Austroasiatic languages, such as sesquisyllabic word structure and vowel inventory.
References edit
- ^ Kerinci at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Bibliography edit
- Van Reijn, E.O. (1974). "Some Remarks on the Dialects of North Kerintji: A link with Mon-Khmer Languages." Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, 31, 2: 130-138.
Further reading edit
- Ernanda. (2011). On the loss of the phrasal alternation in Pondok Tinggi dialect of Kerinci: A Stochastic Optimality Theory Approach (Master thesis). Faculty of *Arts. Radboud University Nijmegen.
- Ernanda. (2017). Phrasal alternation in Kerinci (Doctoral Dissertation). Leiden University Centre for Linguistics. Leiden University.
- McKinnon, Timothy A. (2011). The Morphology and Morphosyntax of Kerinci Word Shape Alternations. University of Delaware, Doctoral Dissertation.
- McKinnon, Timothy, Yanti, Peter Cole, Gabriella Hermon. 2012. Divergent Varieties of Malay in Upstream Jambi. Paper given at ISMIL 16.
- McKinnon, Timothy A. What is Kerinci? An closer look at the geography of its core properties Archived 2015-06-15 at the Wayback Machine.
- Usman, A. Hakim (1988). Fonologi dan Morfologi Bahasa Kerinci Dialek Sungai Penuh. Jakarta: Universitas Indonesia Fakultas Pascasarjana Doctoral Dissertation.
- Yanti; Mckinnon, Timothy; Cole, Peter; Hermon, Gabriella (2018). "The Phonological Basis of Syntactic Change in Kerinci". Oceanic Linguistics. 57 (2): 433–483. doi:10.1353/ol.2018.0018. ISSN 1527-9421. S2CID 149686433.
