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Malay (and Javanese) loanwords in Frederick de Houtman’s Malagasy wordlist
Frederick 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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Distorted and Limiting Semantically Divergent Translated Meaning of Arabic Loanwords in the Malay Language as Educational Instrument [PDF]
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.
Nur Afifah Binti Abas
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The paper analyses language-specific and culture-bound vocabulary as a source of loanwords. A case study of the German loanwords Schadenfreude and Angst, as well as the Malay loanword amok being put forward, the paper scrutinizes their usage in English, German and Russian parallel corpora, with emphasis on their semantic changes and quasi-equivalents ...
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A Phonetic, Morphological and Semantic Analysis of Arabic Words in Malay
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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Sharifah Raihan Syed Jaafar
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English Loanwords in Malay: Identifying Patterns in Academic Magazines
Nor Shahila Mansor
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English, Arabic, and Chinese Loanwords in Brunei Malay
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
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
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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THE COMPARISONS AND CONTRASTS BETWEEN ENGLISH AND MALAY LANGUAGES
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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