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Language Comparison: Makassar vs Alur
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| Aspect | Makassar | Alur |
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Family | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian | Nilo-Saharan |
Speakers | Approximately 2.1 million | Approximately 2 million |
Features | Agglutinative language with extensive use of affixes to indicate grammatical relationships and meaning. | Spoken by the Alur people in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Countries | Indonesia (primarily in South Sulawesi, especially in Makassar City and surrounding areas) | Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Writing System | Latin script (modern use), Lontara script (traditional use) | Latin script |
Tonal | No | Yes, tonal language where pitch can affect meaning |
Grammatical Cases | No, uses prepositions and affixes to indicate grammatical relationships | No, but uses noun classes and verb conjugations to express grammatical relationships |
Derived From | Proto-Malayo-Polynesian | Part of the Western Nilotic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family |
Loanwords | From Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, and Dutch | From Swahili, English, and other local languages |
Dialects | Includes dialectal variations such as Turatea, Konjo, and Selayar | Minor regional variations but largely mutually intelligible across Alur-speaking areas |
Alphabets | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, NG, NY, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z | A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z |
Family
Makassar
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian
Alur
Nilo-Saharan
Speakers
Makassar
Approximately 2.1 million
Alur
Approximately 2 million
Features
Makassar
Agglutinative language with extensive use of affixes to indicate grammatical relationships and meaning.
Alur
Spoken by the Alur people in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Countries
Makassar
Indonesia (primarily in South Sulawesi, especially in Makassar City and surrounding areas)
Alur
Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Writing System
Makassar
Latin script (modern use), Lontara script (traditional use)
Alur
Latin script
Tonal
Makassar
No
Alur
Yes, tonal language where pitch can affect meaning
Grammatical Cases
Makassar
No, uses prepositions and affixes to indicate grammatical relationships
Alur
No, but uses noun classes and verb conjugations to express grammatical relationships
Derived From
Makassar
Proto-Malayo-Polynesian
Alur
Part of the Western Nilotic branch of the Nilo-Saharan language family
Loanwords
Makassar
From Arabic, Portuguese, Malay, and Dutch
Alur
From Swahili, English, and other local languages
Dialects
Makassar
Includes dialectal variations such as Turatea, Konjo, and Selayar
Alur
Minor regional variations but largely mutually intelligible across Alur-speaking areas
Alphabets
Makassar
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, NG, NY, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Alur
A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z
Language Facts:
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