Pendau is a member of the Celebic group of Malayo-Polynesian languages. It is spoken by about 4,000 people in the province of Central Sulawesi in central Indonesia. In particular, it is spoken in the Balesang district of the Donggala Regency in the west of Central Sulawesi Province. The language is spoken among the Pendau people, while Indonesian is used in education, media and with others people.
Pendau is also known as Ndaoe, Ndau or Umalasa. It is written with the Latin script.
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A’u mepeuma-umana’ uma-umanog topepitu nala’e mene’ nombulagon, doruo too nasalankalang. Bai moo pertama jimo pepitu nala’e nombulagon rimene’rimata nuogo. Ila uo jim asi mene’ negutu sanu binaung. Nasae mai jimo mokarajamo ribumbu nesamburemo nelolo bulagon asi.s
I am going to recount a story of seven people who climbed up to gather rattan, and two of these persons got lost. It was like this when the seven of them first climbed to gather rattan up at the spring. After thtat they just went up to make umm a lean-to shelter. After working for a while by the jungle they entered the jungle. After they had gone into the jungle they spread out looking just for rattan.
Source: A grammar of the Pendau language of central Sulawesi, Indonesia (PDF). Phil Quick (2007).
Information about Pendau | Numbers
Information about Pendau
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pendau_language
A grammar of the Pendau language
http://olac.ldc.upenn.edu/language/ums
https://www.sil.org/resources/search/language/ums
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Languages written with the Latin alphabet
Page created: 17.08.24. Last modified: 17.08.24
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