Ampanang language

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Wikipedia

Ampanang
Native toIndonesia
RegionKutai Kartanegara Regency, East Kalimantan
Native speakers
(30,000 cited 1981)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3apg
Glottologampa1239

Ampanang is an Austronesian language spoken at the village of Ampanang (no longer exists today), at the Kahala river (flowing into Lake Semayang and eventually the Mahakam), East Kalimantan. It is closely related to Tunjung, forming the Mahakam languages.[2] This language is only known from a small vocabulary list on S. C. Knappert's work Beschrijving van de Onderafdeeling Koetei (1905), and it had been already displaced by or mixed with Kutainese or Malay among the younger generation.[3]

Christian missionary sites claim that Ampanang people live in Jambuk and Lemper (Bongan, West Kutai), thus conflicting with the information provided by S. C. Knappert.[4]

Vocabulary

Source:[3]

English Ampanang
(in modern spelling)
man liha
woman wawé
child tuhi
river luah
house elu
cat méong
dog imong
sick perah
so (adverb) suah
Numbers
one ca
two rega
three telu
four apat
five lima
six hagan
seven tucu
eight halung
nine salatian
ten sapuluh

References

  1. ↑ Ampanang at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Smith, Alexander D. (2017). The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification (Thesis). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
  3. 1 2 Knappert, S. C. (1905). "Beschrijving van de Onderafdeeling Koetei". Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde: 615–6.
  4. ↑ "Ampanang in Indonesia". joshuaproject.net. Retrieved 2025-10-25.