Indonesian vs. Bribri: Striking lexical similarities in two unrelated languages
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Fecha de Publicación: | 2021 |
| Beskrivelse: | Despite the fact that Indonesian and Bribri belong to two different language families and are spoken on opposite sides of the world, their lexicons contain many words that are strikingly similar. In this paper I analyze the origin of three word pairs from these languages that not only sound similar, but also have almost exactly the same meaning: (1) Indonesian kulit and Bribri kuö ́lit ‘skin, hide, leather, crust, shell, bark, rind, peel’, (2) Indonesian kutu and Bribri kú̱ ‘louse’, and (3) Indonesian kupu-kupu and Bribri kua’kua ‘butterfly’. The intention is not to propose any genealogical link between the Austronesian and the Chibchan language families, but rather to show how phonological, morphological and semantic properties can converge in two unrelated languages and produce this kind of eye-catching similarities. |
| País: | Kérwá |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Kérwá |
| Sprog: | Inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:kerwa.ucr.ac.cr:10669/103772 |
| Online adgang: | https://hdl.handle.net/10669/103772 https://doi.org/10.24036//jbs.v9i1.111535 |
| Palabra clave: | Indonesian language Bribri language Austronesian languages Chibchan languages historical linguistics phonology morphology semantics lengua indonesia lengua bribri lenguas austronesias lenguas chibchenses lingüística histórica fonología morfología semántica |