Barito languages

{{Short description|Language subgroup of Southeast Asia and Madagascar}}

{{Infobox language family

|name=Barito

|altname=Greater Barito

|region= Indonesia (Borneo), Madagascar, Southern Philippines

|familycolor=Austronesian

|fam2=Malayo-Polynesian

|fam3=Western Indonesian ?

|child1=East Barito

|child2=West Barito

|child3=Mahakam

|child4=Sama–Bajaw

|glotto=grea1283

|glottorefname=Greater Barito linkage

}}

The Barito languages are around twenty Austronesian languages of Indonesia (Borneo), plus Malagasy, the national language of Madagascar, and the Sama–Bajaw languages around the Sulu Archipelago. They are named after the Barito River located in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.

The Barito subgroup was first proposed by Hudson (1967),Hudson, Alfred B. 1967. ''The Barito isolects of Borneo: A classification based on comparative

reconstruction and lexicostatistics. Data Paper no. 68, Southeast Asia Program, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University, comprising the three branches East Barito, West Barito, and Mahakam (Barito–Mahakam). It is thought by some to be a Sprachbund rather than a genuine clade. For example, Adelaar (2005) rejects Barito as a valid group despite accepting less traditional groups such as North Bornean and Malayo-Sumbawan.

The Malagasy language originates from the South East Borneo area (modern-day Indonesia), and it has been linked to Ma'anyan within the Southeast Barito group,{{Cite book |first = Robert |last = Blust |title = The Austronesian languages |year = 2013 |isbn = 978-1-922185-07-5 |oclc = 851066712 |location = Canberra |edition = Revised |publisher = Asia-Pacific Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University |series = Asia-Pacific Linguistics 008 |hdl = 1885/10191 |page = 743 |language = en }} with Malagasy incorporating numerous Indonesian-Malay and Javanese loanwords.There are also some Sulawesi loanwords, which Adelaar attributes to contact prior to the migration to Madagascar: See K. Alexander Adelaar, “The Indonesian Migrations to Madagascar: Making Sense of the Multidisciplinary Evidence”, in Truman Simanjuntak, Ingrid Harriet Eileen Pojoh and Muhammad Hisyam (eds.), Austronesian Diaspora and the Ethnogeneses of People in Indonesian Archipelago, (Jakarta: Indonesian Institute of Sciences, 2006), pp. 8–9. It is known that Ma'anyan people were brought as labourers and slaves by Malay and Javanese people in their trading fleets, which reached Madagascar by ca. 50–500 AD.{{cite journal|last1=Dewar|first1=Robert E.|last2=Wright|first2=Henry T.|date=1993|title=The culture history of Madagascar|journal=Journal of World Prehistory|volume=7|issue=4|pages=417–466|doi=10.1007/bf00997802|hdl-access=free|hdl=2027.42/45256}}{{cite journal|vauthors=Burney DA, Burney LP, Godfrey LR, Jungers WL, Goodman SM, Wright HT, Jull AJ|date=August 2004|title=A chronology for late prehistoric Madagascar|journal=Journal of Human Evolution|volume=47|issue=1–2|pages=25–63|doi=10.1016/j.jhevol.2004.05.005|pmid=15288523|bibcode=2004JHumE..47...25B }}Kumar, Ann (2012). 'Dominion Over Palm and Pine: Early Indonesia’s Maritime Reach', in Geoff Wade (ed.), Anthony Reid and the Study of the Southeast Asian Past (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies), 101–122. Based on linguistic evidence, it has been suggested that Malagasy was taken to East Africa between the 7th and 13th centuries.{{Cite journal |first = K. Alexander |last = Adelaar |title = Asian Roots of the Malagasy: A Linguistic Perspective |journal = Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia |year = 1995 |issn = 0006-2294 |volume = 151 |number = 3 |pages = 325–356 |doi = 10.1163/22134379-90003036 |oclc = 5672481889 |jstor = 27864676 |language = en|doi-access = free }}{{Cite book |first = K. Alexander |last = Adelaar |chapter = Borneo as a Cross-Roads for Comparative Austronesian Linguistics |editor-first = Peter |editor-last = Bellwood |editor-first2 = James J. |editor-last2 = Fox |editor-first3 = Darrell T. |editor-last3 = Tryon |title = The Austronesians: Historical and Comparative Perspectives |year = 2006 |isbn = 1-920942-85-8 |location = Canberra |publisher = ANU E Press |pages = 81–102 |oclc = 225298720 |jstor = j.ctt2jbjx1.7 |doi = 10.22459/A.09.2006.04 |doi-access = free |language = en}} It is likely that a separate Malagasy speech community had already formed in Borneo before the early Malagasy migrants settled in Madagascar.{{Cite book |first = K. Alexander |last = Adelaar |chapter = Who Were the First Malagasy, and What Did They Speak? |editor-first = Andrea |editor-last = Acri |editor-first2 = Roger |editor-last2 = Blench |editor-first3 = Alexandra |editor-last3 = Landmann |title = Spirits and Ships: Cultural Transfers in Early Monsoon Asia |year = 2017 |doi = 10.1355/9789814762779-012 |oclc = 1012757769 |isbn = 978-981-4762-75-5 |location = Singapore |publisher = ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute |pages = 441–469 |series = Book collections on Project MUSE 28 |language = en }}{{Cite journal |first = K. Alexander |last = Adelaar |title = A Linguist's Perspective on the Settlement History of Madagascar |journal = NUSA: Linguistic Studies of Languages in and Around Indonesia |date = 2016 |volume = 61 |pages = 69–88 |doi = 10.15026/89605 |hdl = 10108/89605 |oclc = 1005142867 |issn = 0126-2874 |language = en}}