Roglai language

The Roglai language is a Chamic language of southern Vietnam, spoken by the Raglai people.

Roglai
RegionVietnam
Native speakers
(97,000 cited 1999–2002)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
roc – Cacgia
rog – Northern
rgs – Southern
Glottologcacg1235  Cacgia Roglai
nort2994  Northern Roglai
sout3010  Southern Roglai

There are four Roglai dialects: Northern, Du Long, Southern and Cac Gia.[2]

Their autonym is radlai, which means "forest people".

Phonology

Consonants
Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Nasal m n ɲ ŋ
Plosive voiceless p t c k ʔ
voiced b d ɟ ɡ
aspirated pʰ tʰ cʰ kʰ
breathy bʱ dʱ ɟʱ ɡʱ
implosive ɓ ɗ ʄ
Fricative s h
Rhotic r
Approximant (w) l (j)

    Vowels
    Front Central Back
    Close i ĩ ɨ ɨ̃ u ũ
    Mid e ẽ ə ə̃ o õ
    Open a ã
    • Sounds /e, o/ may also have more open variants as [ɛ, ɔ].[3]
    • Glide sounds [j, w] may also occur as a result of vowel off-glides.[4]

    Vocabulary

    Mainland Chamic, Aceh and Malay comparative table:

    Lexeme Proto-Chamic Western Cham Eastern Cham Roglai Aceh Malay
    one *sa /sa ha/ /tha/ /sa/ sa satu
    seven *tujuh /taçuh/ /taçŭh/ /tijuh/ tujôh tujuh
    fire *ʔapuy /pui/ /apuy/ /apui/ apui api
    sky *laŋit /laŋiʔ/ /laŋiʔ/ Lingik /laŋĩ꞉ʔ/ langèt langit
    rice (husked) *bra꞉s /prah/ /prah-l/ /bra/ breueh beras
    iron *bisεy /pasay/ /pithăy/ /pisǝy/ beusoe besi
    sugarcane *tabɔw-v /tapau/ /tapăw/ /tubəu/ teubèe tebu

    References
    1. Cacgia at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
      Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
      Southern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    2. Cobbey, Maxwell; Cobbey, Vurnell (1977). Suraq vungã sanãp Radlai / Nữ-vựng Rơglai / Northern Roglai vocabulary. Huntington Beach, CA: Summer Institute of Linguistics.
    3. Lee, Ernest Wilson (1966). Structure of Northern Roglai as a representative Chamic language. In Proto-Chamic Phonologic Word and Vocabulary: Bloomington: Indiana University. pp. 21–69.
    4. Brunelle, Marc; Brown, Jeanne; Thu Hà, Phạm Thị (2022). Northern Raglai voicing and its relation to Southern Raglai register: evidence for early stages of registrogenesis. In Phonetica 79, Vol 2. pp. 151–188.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link) CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)


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