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Malay (and Javanese) loanwords in Frederick de Houtman’s Malagasy wordlist
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of IndonesiaFrederick de Houtman’s Malagasy language material (1603) consists of a wordlist and short prose texts. It represents a dialect spoken more than four hundred years ago in the Antongil Bay region on Madagascar’s northeast coast, which does not have a ...
Alexander Adelaar
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Tracing the linguistic crossroads between Malay and Tamil [PDF]
Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2015 Speakers of Malay and Tamil have been in intermittent contact for roughly two millennia, yet extant academic work on the resultant processes of contact, lexical borrowing, and language mixing at the interface of these two speech communities has only ...
Tom G. Hoogervorst
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Distorted and Limiting Semantically Divergent Translated Meaning of Arabic Loanwords in the Malay Language as Educational Instrument [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2021 Historically, the language contact contributed by Muslim preachers among the Arab traders of diverse origins that some of them opted to migrate and intermarry with the local Malays, thus, intermingled with the locals that had influenced the Malay/Malaysian language to borrow more Arabic words.
AWEJ for Translation & Literary Studies +3 more
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An Optimality Analysis of Malay Loanwords in Japanese [PDF]
Akademika, 2017 This study aimed to examine and explain the phonology of Malay loanwords in Japanese using Optimality Theory. The analysis was based on secondary data extracted from the Senyum magazine published in Malaysia that utilises Japanese language in its writing. The relevant data which was selected manually, was then analysed and explained using a constraints-
Aznur Aisyah, Zaharani Ahmad
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A Phonetic, Morphological and Semantic Analysis of Arabic Words in Malay
Journal of Modern Languages, 2017 This study considers ‘loanwords’, as a universal phenomenon, as there is no language which does not borrow lexical items from other languages either to adopt new concepts or to enrich, increase and develop its vocabulary. Arabic loanwords in Malay have
Arif Karkhi Abukhudairi
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English, Arabic, and Chinese Loanwords in Brunei Malay
LingPoet: Journal of Linguistics and Literary Research, 2021 Brunei Malay is a unique Malay dialect spoken not only in Brunei Darussalam, but also in neighboring parts of Borneo. Although extensive data are available on lexical borrowings in Standard Malay and Indonesian, surprisingly, Brunei Malay has not been studied in this regard.
Balazs Huszka +3 more
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The Acehnese Loanwords and Contact with Other World's Languages
Lingua Cultura, 2023 The research aimed to uncover some Acehnese loanwords’ etymological and historical roots, which may help unravel the relationships between the world’s languages. The method applied in the research was the word-etymology model or lexical etymology to
Saiful Akmal +3 more
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Variations of Arabic Loanwords in the Perlis Malay Dialect: Geolinguistic Analysis
e-Jurnal Bahasa dan Linguistik (e-JBL), 2022 Perlis is a unique state because it borders a foreign country in the north which is Thailand and next to the state of Kedah. This unique position also has an impact on the Malay dialect spoken by native speakers in Perlis. While this loan word in Arabic is seen in the Malay language as having a close connection with Islam which is held by the majority ...
Ainur Hissam, Zuliana Zubir
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Diachronic Corpora as a Tool for Tracing Etymological Information of Indonesian-Malay Lexicon
Register Journal, 2020 Indonesian lexicon comprises numerous loanwords which some of them already exist since the 7th century. The large number of loanwords is the reason why many dictionaries of Indonesian etymology available today contain merely the origin of the words ...
Kamal Yusuf, Dewi Puspita
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Some Introductory Notes on the Development and Characteristics of Sabah Malay [PDF]
, 2011 This is a preliminary description of the Malay variety used as a lingua franca in the Malaysian state of Sabah at the northernmost top of Borneo. The paper discusses a number of common linguistic features that distinguish Sabah Malay from other Malay ...
Jing Cheng (41407) +1 more
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