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Madurese is the spoken language of the Madurese people from Madura Island, Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
; it is also spoken on Kangean Islands
Kangean Islands

The Kangean Islands are an archipelago part of Indonesia, are located in the Java Sea approximately 120 km north of Bali and 120 km east of Madura Island....
, Sapudi Islands and in eastern part of East Java
East Java

East Java is a Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and also includes neighboring Madura Island and Bawean islands....
. It is classified as a member of the Sundic subgroup of the West Malayo-Polynesian group of the Austronesian language family
Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia....
. It was traditionally written in the Javanese script
Javanese script

The 'Javanese script', natively known as Carakan , is the pre-colonial script used to write the Javanese language.As of 2008 Javanese is difficult to render on a computer, but Unicode support is underway....
, but the Latin alphabet
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
 is now more commonly used. Number of speakers though shrinking are estimated to be 8-13 million.

rese has more consonant
Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the upper vocal tract, the upper vocal tract being defined as that part of the vocal tract that lies above the larynx....
s than its neighboring languages due to it having voiceless unaspirated, voiceless aspirated
Aspiration (phonetics)

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of Earth's atmosphere that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents....
, and voiced sounds.






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Madurese is the spoken language of the Madurese people from Madura Island, Indonesia
Indonesia

The Republic of Indonesia , is a transcontinental country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Comprising Islands of Indonesia, it is the world's largest Archipelago state....
; it is also spoken on Kangean Islands
Kangean Islands

The Kangean Islands are an archipelago part of Indonesia, are located in the Java Sea approximately 120 km north of Bali and 120 km east of Madura Island....
, Sapudi Islands and in eastern part of East Java
East Java

East Java is a Provinces of Indonesia of Indonesia. It is located on the eastern part of the island of Java and also includes neighboring Madura Island and Bawean islands....
. It is classified as a member of the Sundic subgroup of the West Malayo-Polynesian group of the Austronesian language family
Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family widely dispersed throughout the islands of Maritime Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia....
. It was traditionally written in the Javanese script
Javanese script

The 'Javanese script', natively known as Carakan , is the pre-colonial script used to write the Javanese language.As of 2008 Javanese is difficult to render on a computer, but Unicode support is underway....
, but the Latin alphabet
Latin alphabet

The Latin alphabet, also called the Roman alphabet, is the most widely used alphabetic writing system in the world today. It evolved from the western variety of the Greek alphabet called the Cumae alphabet, and was initially developed by the Ancient Romes to write the Latin....
 is now more commonly used. Number of speakers though shrinking are estimated to be 8-13 million.

Phonology and Morphology

Madurese has more consonant
Consonant

In articulatory phonetics, a consonant is a speech sound that is articulated with complete or partial closure of the upper vocal tract, the upper vocal tract being defined as that part of the vocal tract that lies above the larynx....
s than its neighboring languages due to it having voiceless unaspirated, voiceless aspirated
Aspiration (phonetics)

In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of Earth's atmosphere that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents....
, and voiced sounds. Similar to Javanese
Javanese language

Javanese is the language of the people in the central and eastern parts of the island of Java, in Indonesia. In addition, there are also some pockets of Javanese speakers in the northern coast of western Java....
, it has a contrast between dental
Dental consonant

In linguistics, a dental consonant or dental is a consonant that is articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as , , , and in some languages....
 and alveolar
Alveolar consonant

Alveolar consonants are articulated with the tongue against or close to the superior alveolar ridge, which is called that because it contains the Dental alveolus of the superior teeth....
 (even retroflex
Retroflex consonant

In phonetics, retroflex consonants are consonant sounds used in some languages. The tongue is placed behind the alveolar ridge, and may even be curled back to touch the palate: that is, they are articulated in the postalveolar consonant to palatal consonant region of the mouth....
) stops. Nouns are not inflected in gender and are plural
Plural

Plural is a grammatical number, typically referring to more than one of the referent in the real world. In the English language, singular and plural are the only grammatical numbers....
ized via reduplication
Reduplication

Reduplication, in linguistics, is a morphology process by which the root or Stem of a word, or part of it, is repeated.Reduplication is used in inflections to convey a grammatical function, such as plurality, intensification, etc., and in lexical Derivation to create new words....
. Its basic word order is SVO. Negation
Negation

In logic and mathematics, negation or not is an operation on logical values, for example, the logical value of a proposition, that sends true to false and false to true....
 is expressed by putting a negative particle before the verb, adjective or noun phrase
Noun phrase

In grammar, a noun phrase is a phrase whose Head is a noun or a pronoun, optionally accompanied by a set of modifiers.Noun phrases are very common linguistic typology, but some languages like Tuscarora language and Cayuga language have been argued to lack this category....
. As with other similar languages there are different negative particles for different kinds of negation.

Common Words

  • Man: lalake
  • Woman: babine
  • Yes: iya
  • No: enja
  • Water: aeng
  • Sun: are
  • Three: tello'
  • I/me: sengko'
  • You: be'en