Jaku Semai

Semai () nya siti jaku ari raban jaku Austroasiatik ke dikena ba Malaysia Barat. Jaku tu dikena sepemayuh 60,438 iku orang bansa Semai. Iya siti ari sekeda jaku-jaku Asli ti enda punas, lalu indah bisi 2,000 iku orang ti ngena jaku tunggal. Diatu iya dikena 3 raban besai; Semai Utara, Semai Tengah enggau Semai Selatan.

Fonologi 
Siti aspek ti tampak ba fonologi Semai iya nya pola reduplikasyen ekspresif iya ti enda teratur bendar, ngayanka salin ti enda begembar ari semina tisi pelasar reduplikan, lalu enggau nya nempa suku kata mit.

 Urup vokal 
+Vokal mulutFrontCentralBackClose   Close-mid  Open-mid  Open 

+Vokal idung FrontCentralBackClose   Mid  Open 

 Urup konsonan 
BilabialAlveolarPalatalVelarGlottalPlosivevoicelessvoicedNasalvoicedpreplodedFricativeRhotic~LateralApproximant

 Chunto leka jaku 
Chunto leka jaku dalam jaku Semai iya nya:
 Iban Semai Aku  Makai  Irup  Mandi  Beresi  Manah  Manuk / Asi  Kulat  Lapa / Nama kebuah  Bakani 

 Budaya tebilang 
 Asli (2017), siti filem ti diarahka David Liew, ngenang pasal siku nembiak indu dua bansa ba jalai deka nemu pesaka budaya iya, nya filem ti keterubah ngena jaku Semai dalam 50% dialog iya.

 Kereban sanding 

 Bacha ke silik agi 

Diffloth, Gerard.  1976a.  Minor-Syllable Vocalism in Senoic Languages.  In Philip N. Lenner, Laurence C. Thompson, and Stanley Starosta (eds.), Austroasiatic Studies, Part I, 229–247.  Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press.
Diffloth, Gerard.  1976b.  Expressives in Semai.  In Philip N. Lenner, Laurence C. Thompson, and Stanley Starosta (eds.), Austroasiatic Studies, Part I, 249–264.  Honolulu: The University of Hawaii Press.
Hendricks, Sean.  2001.  Bare-Consonant Reduplication Without Prosodic Templates: Expressive Reduplication in Semai.  Journal of East Asian Linguistics 10: 287–306.
Phillips, Timothy C. 2013. Linguistic Comparison of Semai Dialects. SIL Electronic Survey Reports 2013-010: 1–111.

 Laman web ke bukai 
 http://projekt.ht.lu.se/rwaai RWAAI (Repository and Workspace for Austroasiatic Intangible Heritage)
 Semai in RWAAI Digital Archive
 Semai dictionary of SIL International – online version accessible from Webonary.org

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