Preliminary notes on the phonology, orthography and vocabulary of Semnam 
(Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula)

Burenhult, Niclas; Wegener, Claudia

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Preliminary notes on the phonology, orthography and vocabulary of Semnam (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula)

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Burenhult, Niclas
Language and Cognition Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;
Language documentation and data mining, PI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

Wegener, Claudia
School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures, University of Manchester;
Language and Cognition Group, MPI for Psycholinguistics, Max Planck Society;

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Burenhult, N., & Wegener, C. (2009). Preliminary notes on the phonology, orthography and vocabulary of Semnam (Austroasiatic, Malay Peninsula). Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society, 1, 283-312. Retrieved from http://www.jseals.org/.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0013-3185-7

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This paper reports tentatively some features of Semnam, a Central Aslian language spoken by some 250 people in the Perak valley, Peninsular Malaysia. It outlines the unusually rich phonemic system of this hitherto undescribed language (e.g. a vowel system comprising 36 distinctive nuclei), and proposes a practical orthography for it. It also includes the c. 1,250- item wordlist on which the analysis is based, collected intermittently in the field 2006-2008.