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Malay (and Javanese) loanwords in Frederick de Houtman’s Malagasy wordlist
WacanaFrederick 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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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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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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THE COMPARISONS AND CONTRASTS BETWEEN ENGLISH AND MALAY LANGUAGES
English Review: Journal of English Education, 2016 English and Malay languages are categorized as popular languages in the world. However, both languages underwent different history and composition. This study investigates the languages in terms of history, phonology, loanwords, grammar, morphology and
Mohd Nazri Latiff Azmi +6 more
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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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An Aslian origin for the word gibbon
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2020 This article examines the etymology of the word gibbon, which is not yet clear. The article presents a phonemic analysis using the ALINE algorithm which suggests that the root word is Northern Aslian kbɔɲ, used by Menraq communities in the heart of ...
Teckwyn Lim
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Tracing the linguistic crossroads between Malay and Tamil
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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AN OVERVIEW OF INDONESIAN LOANWORDS FROM FRENCH
Indonesian Journal of Applied Linguistics, 2016 When two languages come into contact, they exert a reciprocal influence, often unbalanced. A phenomenon that often occurs in case of language contact is the absorption or borrowing of lexical elements, which will enrich the vocabulary of the receiving ...
Tri Indri Hardini, Philippe Grangé
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RECONSTRUCTING A PROTO-PAHANG RIVER LEXICON: NOW AND IN THE FUTURE [PDF]
Asian and African StudiesProto Pahang Malay (PPM) faces significant challenges in the preservation and dissemination of its reconstructed lexical data. Much of the existing data remains locked within physical archives or behind paywalls, limiting accessibility for researchers ...
Muhammad Norsyafiq ZAIDI +2 more
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Words of apparent Arabic, Persian, Hindi or Malay origin in KHOE
Studies in African Linguistics, 2023 The paper builds on the early detection by Carl Meinhof of one or two Arabic loanwords in Nama (Khoekhoe, Khoe), and explores the possibility of other borrowings, from not only from Arabic but also languages of the Cushitic family.
Menan du Plessis
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