Central Sinama - English Dictionary with 13,000+ entries.
Not recently updated — last update was on 2023-11-02.
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Pros & Cons
Large, well-structured Sinama lexicon with extensive English glosses
Rich content including examples, grammar, and cultural context
Searchable and portable, suitable for field language learning
Free to use and accessible
No top-list ranking and a 0.0 rating (0 ratings) may affect perceived credibility
Modest recent growth (18 downloads in the last 30 days)
Lacks common translator/learning keywords found in competitors (e.g., Tagalog, Malay, translations, translate, learn)
About Sinama Dictionary
Sinama Dictionary is a books & reference app developed by Kauman Sama Online.
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Sinama Dictionary has been downloaded 5.8 thousand times. In the last 30 days, the app was downloaded 21 times.
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Is Sinama Dictionary free?
Sinama Dictionary is free to download. The APK download size is 16.39 MB. The latest version available is 1.2. The last update was on November 2, 2023.
What are the requirements for Sinama Dictionary?
The app has a content rating of Everyone. The app has been available on Google Play July 2018.
Description
Work on the Central Sinama - English Dictionary has spanned the course of over half a century. The major contributing partners in this effort have been the Summer Institute of Linguistics (now SIL Philippines), the Bureau of Public Schools (now the Department of Education) and Sama individuals and communities in the Sulu province (prior to its division into the three provinces: Basilan, Sulu, & Tawi-Tawi) and in the Zamboanga province. In recent years helpful contributions have also been obtained from Sama individuals originally from these two provinces who have found themselves spread out throughout the Philippines & Malaysia with special mention of those communities in the Davao & Soccsksargen regions. Kemp Pallesen and his wife Anne have overseen this publication from start to finish.
Central Sinama is a language of the Philippines and Malaysia (known in Malaysia as Bajau). It is one of 9 separate but related Sama-Badjaw languages. Speakers of the language number in the hundreds of thousands. Dialects belonging to the language include: Sama Dilaut (in all regions of Zambasulta and diaspora communities), Sama Siasi (including those from Buliꞌ Kullul, Kūd-Kūd, Laminusa, Manubal, Musuꞌ, Punungan, Sibaud, Siganggang, Silompak, Sisangat), as well as those from Bannaran, Bintawlan, & Tabawan in Tawi-Tawi, and Kabingaꞌan in Sulu and many of the Sama residents of the Zamboanga Peninsula. The South Ubian dialect shares many features of Central Sinama as well and speakers of other Sama-Badjaw languages will certainly find many familiar words, roots, and example sentences within the contents of this dictionary.
For those looking for a Badjao dictionary, the Badjao language (Sama Dilaut) is a dialect of Central Sinama. Research for this dictionary was done among Badjao communities in Zamboanga, Sisangat, & Davao.
Central Sinama has 23 Phonemes represented by 22 letter symbols.
The 17 consonants are: b d g h ꞌ j k l m n ng p r s t w y.
The 6 vowels are: a e ꞌ i o u.
The central vowel and the glottal stop are both represented by the symbol ꞌ.
Lengthened vowels are written with a line over the top of the vowel: ā ī ē ō ū
Marking word stress is unnecessary due to the consistent penultimate stress of the Sinama language (stress falls on the second to last syllable of a word), and the orthography's marking of long vowels and attaching enclitic pronouns to verbs and nouns in example sentences.
Recent changes: This is its first release updated to meet android requirements and should prove useful to Sama scholars, professionals, teachers, students, & parents alike.
Current Features: * 13,325 Sinama word stems with English definitions. * 10,455 English words with Sinama glosses. * Example Sentences. * Grammatical Info. * Links between related words and variants. * Cultural & historical background information * Searchable. * Shareable. * Portable (Great for field language learning)
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I am not a native of Tawi-Tawi, but I really like to learn Sinama aside
from Tausug. Thank you for this great app! Hoping to learn more!
★★★★★Injal Gani· May 21, 2021
I hope there is another version like this. I need Mapun Dictionary.
★★★★★Hadassah Branch· Nov 24, 2019
This is a marvelous and thoughtful app! Sinama is such a beautiful language to learn and your dictionary is so easy to use. By the way, in the Philippines, which regions do Bad jaw speak Sinama? It would also be great if you could put a little pronunciation guide under each word, if audio is not a possibility for now. Love your app! You are helping a lot of people. 💕
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