Questions tagged [malay]
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Is the Malay "garam" (salt) related to the Latin "garum" (fish sauce)?
The Malay/Indonesian word for salt garam is surprisingly similar to the Latin word for the Roman fish sauce garum.
Since garum was made from fermented salted fish, is there an etymological ...
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The Word for 'Ball' Pre-Colonisation
What I've found is that word-final /a/ in native Malay words and words up to the time of the Portuguese invasion (16-17th century) undergo reduction, e.g.:
/a/ → [ə] / __#
Mata (eye) - [matə]
Kura-...
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Which language among South East Asia has the most and least loanwords from English? [closed]
Among different languages used in Southeast Asia, which language has the most and least loanwords from English in lexicon?
In different languages, I assume Tagalog, Malay, Thai, Vietnamese.
I know ...
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Lexical similarity among languages used in Southeast Asia
Among many languages used in Southeast Asia (especially I want to talk about Malay, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and Thai), is there any study about which pair of languages is close to each other in ...
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Why are the Dutch called "belanda" in Malay and Indonesian?
While reading on the etymology of the turkey, I found that the Malays and Indonesians called the animal ayam belanda (Dutch chicken). I was then reminded of the proboscis monkey, which is called ...
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Diagnostic for Finiteness
For a language that does not have overt morphological tense and any tense distinctions (e.g. Malay), how is it possible to discern whether a clause is finite or non-finite? Is it possible to use ...
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Movement and Spell-Out of Heads
Generally, DPs need to move to certain positions or configurations in order to check for case features (among other things) and allow spell-out. For example, raising predicates raise the subject of an ...
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Passive Imperatives
The optional subject of an imperative is usually the second person pronoun. I've found something quite peculiar in Malay, where the utterance is an imperative and is passive but the subject is not the ...
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Interrogatives and Copulas in Malay
In Malay, the wh-phrase in interrogatives remains in-situ, but may move to the left periphery of the clause.
Declarative
Malay: Awak makan ayam
Gloss: You eat chicken
Eng: You eat chicken
Wh-in-...
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Can Malay or Indonesian ever have an /n/ followed by a /g/?
Malay and Indonesian are considered to be very phonetically spelled with the usually cited exception being that orthographic "e" can represent either /e/ or /ə/.
In both orthographies the sound /ŋ/ ...
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Are there letters or diacritics in the IPA suitable for narrow/phonetic descriptions of the Malay final -h?
In Malay there is a syllable-final -h with some unique properties distinct from the "normal" syllable-initial h. But in all the accounts of the language I can only see a single symbol used, the ...