THE INTERNAL RECONSTRUCTION OF PHONEMES PROTO THE BUSOA LANGUAGE
Asrul Nazar (a*), L.M. Azhar Saban (b)
a) Universitas Muhammadiyah Buton, Jalan Betoambari No. 36, Baubau 93723, Indonesia, asrulnazar[at]gmail.com
b) faculty of social and political sciences, Jalan Betoambari No. 36, Baubau 93723, Indonesia, izharrazi[at]gmail.com
Abstract
As the language is endangered, language Busoa should the effort of documenting the language as a form of keeping the intellectual property of the ancestors. The purpose of this study was to determine the phonemes of proto language Busoa. Method in this research is descriptive qualitative method with the techniques of reconstruction of the internal. The results showed that the phoneme vocal proto-Language Busoa there are 5 phonemes of vowels, namely vowels front high /i/, high back /*u/, the front of the middle of the /*e/, the middle of the back /*o/, and the vowel menen middle low /*a/. While on the phonemes of consonants proto there are 15 pieces, namely: *p, *b, *t, *ɖ, *j, *k, *ɡ, *β, *s, *R, *h, *l, *m, *n, and b̑. The conclusion of this research is on the phonemes of Vowels proto there are 5 pieces and consonants proto contained 15 pieces.
Keywords: reconstruction; language; Busoa.
Topic: Sociology