Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia
Three Komering girls in 1929
Komering is a Lampungic language spoken by Komering people, an indigenous ethnic group native to Komering regions alongside the Komering River in southern hemisphere of Sumatra island Indonesia.
Location
Komering in the Lampung Province, South Sumatra Province in southern Sumatra, along the Komering River.
Classification
Komering language belongs to the Lampungic linguistic family, which is one of the groups within the Austronesian family.[2][3]
Phonology
Consonants
A voiced fricative /z/ also occurs, but only as a result of foreign loanwords.
Vowels
Vocabulary
Examples of basic Komering words:[4]
Komering (standard) |
Meaning
|
kayu |
tree
|
habu |
ashes
|
tanoh |
world
|
jukuk |
grass
|
hatolui |
egg
|
tolu |
three
|
hujau |
rain
|
hambur |
to steal
|
tohlui |
egg
|
pak |
four
|
ganta |
now
|
ompai |
new
|
sisu |
chicken
|
manuk |
bird
|