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The GLOCAL Conference in Asia 2020 Proceedings, 2020
It is not possible to determine the exact number of indigenous languages of Sarawak, one reason b... more It is not possible to determine the exact number of indigenous languages of Sarawak, one reason being the dialect-language dichotomy, as some isolects has not been ascertained. Ethnic labels may not reflect a linguistically homogenous group. That is to say that the language varieties spoken by an ethnic group may have a dialectal relationship with one another, or they may be heterogeneous, which means they are mutually unintelligible. This paper reports on the results of a lexicostatistic study that examines linguistic affiliation of a group of languages found along the Tinjar-Baram river basin, namely Berawan, Bakong, Narom, Kiput, Dali,’ and Miriek, and also their links with Kenyah Long Terawan, Lepo’ Tau and Belait in nearby Brunei. The paper also traces their historical past and describes how languages spoken by these ethnolinguistic groups have become affiliated to each other. For some reason or another, e.g. migration in search of greener pastures, internal rivalry or/and conversion to modern religions, these indigenous communities are forced to move away from their original speech communities, and they call themselves by different names in their new localities, usually after the name of a river or a mountain. These factors and categorisation on the basis of similar cultural attributes have caused misinterpretation of the identity of the indigenous groups in the past. The paper will clarify some of the misconceptions regarding the ethnolinguistic groups in the region.
Keywords: Language contact, lexicostatistics, linguistic affiliation, Borneo.
Papers by asmah haji omar
Malaysian Journal of Languages and Linguistics (MJLL), 2016
Whithin the scope of kin and neighbourhood relationship, this study was conducted for two purpose... more Whithin the scope of kin and neighbourhood relationship, this study was conducted for two purposes. The first was to identify the system of address used in the Sambas Malay speech community. The second was to interprete how the system represents the speakers' sociolinguistic competence. The data were collected through fieldwork. Participant observation, unstructured interview and voice recording were simultaneously implemented. The componential analysis and the analysis of alternation rules were applied as the model. The findings show that the address terms in Sambas take various linguistic forms of the language. birth order labels are typical kinship terms of the community, and these terms are also commonly used as address terms in both kin and neighbourhood relationship. Some address terms from other languages also exist. Beside indicating the role relationship between the addresser and the addressee, the use of an address term indicates the physical characteristics and the social status of an addressee, in addition to reciprocity or otherwise. Honorific, academic and other status terms refer to the higher status of the addressee and the social distance between participants. The use of such terms denote solidarity, intimacy and power relationship.
Pluricentric Languages, 1991
Malay is an indigenous language of Peninsular Malaysia and the islands south and southeast of thi... more Malay is an indigenous language of Peninsular Malaysia and the islands south and southeast of this peninsula. The language belongs to the Austronesian family of languages. It has been the lingua franca of insular Southeast Asia from time immemorial. Chinese ...
Malaysian Worldview, 1985
Page 194. LANGUAGE AND THE WORLD-VIEW OF THE MALAY PEASANTS ASMAH HAJI OMAR World-view is defined... more Page 194. LANGUAGE AND THE WORLD-VIEW OF THE MALAY PEASANTS ASMAH HAJI OMAR World-view is defined as the way a certain people perceive life and this perception may be reflected in or influenced by various media, language, culture, religion, and so on. ...
... Language and society in Malaysia. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Asmah Haji Omar (b. 1... more ... Language and society in Malaysia. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Asmah Haji Omar (b. 1940, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kementerian Pelajaran, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1982. PUB TYPE: Book. ...
This thesis is a grammatical study of Iban, an Austronesian language, spoken in Sarawak, Malaysia... more This thesis is a grammatical study of Iban, an Austronesian language, spoken in Sarawak, Malaysia. It commences with an account of the background of the people and their language, the aim and scope of the thesis, the collection of data and the method of describing the grammar. Although the theme of the thesis is grammar, a chapter on phonology is included to justify the phonemic transcription of the examples given, and to elucidate certain statements on the morphological characteristics of Iban. Only a brief account of the various intonation types is given. The grammatical description begins in Chapter 3, which treats the morphology of the language. The bound morphemes, comprising prefixes and one suffix, are classified into verbal and nominal morphemes. Reduplication is a morphological characteristics of the verbals and the nominals. Chapter 4 classifies words into verbals, nominals and function words. These classes are divided into subclasses which can undergo further subclassific...
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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 2015
Contact between speakers of clusters of Malay dialects of the Malay Peninsula and Sumatera has be... more Contact between speakers of clusters of Malay dialects of the Malay Peninsula and Sumatera has been going on from historical times until today. This study discusses contacts as reflected in the literary genres of the syair and the hikayat. A research was conducted on a real life situation of the contact of the Bengkulu dialect cluster of Sumatera and that of the southern peninsula Malay dialect in a Bengkulu settler community in the latter region, to assess the receptivity of the speakers of the minority settler community of the norms of the host region. The findings showed that although there was adaptation on the part of the minority community, it did not come readily. Norms that determine the preferred use and usage of language, as well as the social pragmatics of adaptation are the motivating factors for acceptance. Stability of the minority as part of a larger community leads to uninhibited awareness of the traditions of the (former's) parent community, which in turn motivates a regeneration of erstwhile practices.
It is not possible to determine the exact number of indigenous languages of Sarawak, one reason b... more It is not possible to determine the exact number of indigenous languages of Sarawak, one reason being the dialect-language dichotomy, as some isolects has not been ascertained. Ethnic labels may not reflect a linguistically homogenous group. That is to say that the language varieties spoken by an ethnic group may have a dialectal relationship with one another, or they may be heterogeneous, which means they are mutually unintelligible. This paper reports on the results of a lexicostatistic study that examines linguistic affiliation of a group of languages found along the Tinjar-Baram river basin, namely Berawan, Bakong, Narom, Kiput, Dali,’ and Miriek, and also their links with Kenyah Long Terawan, Lepo’ Tau and Belait in nearby Brunei. The paper also traces their historical past and describes how languages spoken by these ethnolinguistic groups have become affiliated to each other. For some reason or another, e.g. migration in search of greener pastures, internal rivalry or/and conversion to modern religions, these indigenous communities are forced to move away from their original speech communities, and they call themselves by different names in their new localities, usually after the name of a river or a mountain. These factors and categorisation on the basis of similar cultural attributes have caused misinterpretation of the identity of the indigenous groups in the past. The paper will clarify some of the misconceptions regarding the ethnolinguistic groups in the region.
Pemikiran bahawa bahasa merupakan alat penyatuan bangsa adalah lumrah bagi negaranegara yang sebe... more Pemikiran bahawa bahasa merupakan alat penyatuan bangsa adalah lumrah bagi negaranegara yang sebelumnya merupakan tanah jajahan di bawah perintah bangsa luar yang menguasai kehidupan anak negeri dalam masa yang agak lama. Keadaan yang sebegini telah meninggalkan kesan dalam perkembangan beberapa aspek budaya, termasuk aspek-aspek yang terdapat dalam domain penggunaan bahasa yang penting, dalam kehidupan rakyat negara yang dijajah itu. Salah satu kesan yang dialami ialah kesedaran bahawa rakyat memerlukan lambang kewujudan negara yang setaraf dengan negara-negara yang tidak pernah dijajah atau yang sudah terlepas dari rantai penjajahan. Salah satu daripada lambang ini adalah bahasa, iaitu bahasa kebangsaan, yang dilihat sebagai perekat bangsa. Di Malaysia, pilihan bahasa kebangsaan jatuh pada bahasa Melayu, iaitu bahasa asal Tanah Melayu.
Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
Malaysian aborigines can only be located in Peninsular Malaysia or Malaya. Linguistically, they a... more Malaysian aborigines can only be located in Peninsular Malaysia or Malaya. Linguistically, they are divided into two main groups, based on the languages they speak: one consisting of speakers of languages belonging to the Austronesian stock which places them together with the Malays, and the other of speakers of the Austroasiatic stock which relates them to the Mon-Khmer family of the hill tribes of Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. This article focuses of the first group, consisting of six speech systems, examining their subgrouping based on their geohistory of settlement as well as the linguistic relationship between members of the subgroups. The result of this subgrouping is that five of the six are in dialectal relationship with Malay, while the sixth (originating from Sumatra) is a language in its own right. All the six can be linked to an ancestor form, the Proto-Malayic.
Oceanic Linguistics, 2015
The GLOCAL Conference in Asia 2020 Proceedings, 2020
It is not possible to determine the exact number of indigenous languages of Sarawak, one reason b... more It is not possible to determine the exact number of indigenous languages of Sarawak, one reason being the dialect-language dichotomy, as some isolects has not been ascertained. Ethnic labels may not reflect a linguistically homogenous group. That is to say that the language varieties spoken by an ethnic group may have a dialectal relationship with one another, or they may be heterogeneous, which means they are mutually unintelligible. This paper reports on the results of a lexicostatistic study that examines linguistic affiliation of a group of languages found along the Tinjar-Baram river basin, namely Berawan, Bakong, Narom, Kiput, Dali,’ and Miriek, and also their links with Kenyah Long Terawan, Lepo’ Tau and Belait in nearby Brunei. The paper also traces their historical past and describes how languages spoken by these ethnolinguistic groups have become affiliated to each other. For some reason or another, e.g. migration in search of greener pastures, internal rivalry or/and conversion to modern religions, these indigenous communities are forced to move away from their original speech communities, and they call themselves by different names in their new localities, usually after the name of a river or a mountain. These factors and categorisation on the basis of similar cultural attributes have caused misinterpretation of the identity of the indigenous groups in the past. The paper will clarify some of the misconceptions regarding the ethnolinguistic groups in the region.
Keywords: Language contact, lexicostatistics, linguistic affiliation, Borneo.
Malaysian Journal of Languages and Linguistics (MJLL), 2016
Whithin the scope of kin and neighbourhood relationship, this study was conducted for two purpose... more Whithin the scope of kin and neighbourhood relationship, this study was conducted for two purposes. The first was to identify the system of address used in the Sambas Malay speech community. The second was to interprete how the system represents the speakers' sociolinguistic competence. The data were collected through fieldwork. Participant observation, unstructured interview and voice recording were simultaneously implemented. The componential analysis and the analysis of alternation rules were applied as the model. The findings show that the address terms in Sambas take various linguistic forms of the language. birth order labels are typical kinship terms of the community, and these terms are also commonly used as address terms in both kin and neighbourhood relationship. Some address terms from other languages also exist. Beside indicating the role relationship between the addresser and the addressee, the use of an address term indicates the physical characteristics and the social status of an addressee, in addition to reciprocity or otherwise. Honorific, academic and other status terms refer to the higher status of the addressee and the social distance between participants. The use of such terms denote solidarity, intimacy and power relationship.
Pluricentric Languages, 1991
Malay is an indigenous language of Peninsular Malaysia and the islands south and southeast of thi... more Malay is an indigenous language of Peninsular Malaysia and the islands south and southeast of this peninsula. The language belongs to the Austronesian family of languages. It has been the lingua franca of insular Southeast Asia from time immemorial. Chinese ...
Malaysian Worldview, 1985
Page 194. LANGUAGE AND THE WORLD-VIEW OF THE MALAY PEASANTS ASMAH HAJI OMAR World-view is defined... more Page 194. LANGUAGE AND THE WORLD-VIEW OF THE MALAY PEASANTS ASMAH HAJI OMAR World-view is defined as the way a certain people perceive life and this perception may be reflected in or influenced by various media, language, culture, religion, and so on. ...
... Language and society in Malaysia. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Asmah Haji Omar (b. 1... more ... Language and society in Malaysia. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Asmah Haji Omar (b. 1940, d. ----. PUBLISHER: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, Kementerian Pelajaran, Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1982. PUB TYPE: Book. ...
This thesis is a grammatical study of Iban, an Austronesian language, spoken in Sarawak, Malaysia... more This thesis is a grammatical study of Iban, an Austronesian language, spoken in Sarawak, Malaysia. It commences with an account of the background of the people and their language, the aim and scope of the thesis, the collection of data and the method of describing the grammar. Although the theme of the thesis is grammar, a chapter on phonology is included to justify the phonemic transcription of the examples given, and to elucidate certain statements on the morphological characteristics of Iban. Only a brief account of the various intonation types is given. The grammatical description begins in Chapter 3, which treats the morphology of the language. The bound morphemes, comprising prefixes and one suffix, are classified into verbal and nominal morphemes. Reduplication is a morphological characteristics of the verbals and the nominals. Chapter 4 classifies words into verbals, nominals and function words. These classes are divided into subclasses which can undergo further subclassific...
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Open Journal of Modern Linguistics, 2015
Contact between speakers of clusters of Malay dialects of the Malay Peninsula and Sumatera has be... more Contact between speakers of clusters of Malay dialects of the Malay Peninsula and Sumatera has been going on from historical times until today. This study discusses contacts as reflected in the literary genres of the syair and the hikayat. A research was conducted on a real life situation of the contact of the Bengkulu dialect cluster of Sumatera and that of the southern peninsula Malay dialect in a Bengkulu settler community in the latter region, to assess the receptivity of the speakers of the minority settler community of the norms of the host region. The findings showed that although there was adaptation on the part of the minority community, it did not come readily. Norms that determine the preferred use and usage of language, as well as the social pragmatics of adaptation are the motivating factors for acceptance. Stability of the minority as part of a larger community leads to uninhibited awareness of the traditions of the (former's) parent community, which in turn motivates a regeneration of erstwhile practices.
It is not possible to determine the exact number of indigenous languages of Sarawak, one reason b... more It is not possible to determine the exact number of indigenous languages of Sarawak, one reason being the dialect-language dichotomy, as some isolects has not been ascertained. Ethnic labels may not reflect a linguistically homogenous group. That is to say that the language varieties spoken by an ethnic group may have a dialectal relationship with one another, or they may be heterogeneous, which means they are mutually unintelligible. This paper reports on the results of a lexicostatistic study that examines linguistic affiliation of a group of languages found along the Tinjar-Baram river basin, namely Berawan, Bakong, Narom, Kiput, Dali,’ and Miriek, and also their links with Kenyah Long Terawan, Lepo’ Tau and Belait in nearby Brunei. The paper also traces their historical past and describes how languages spoken by these ethnolinguistic groups have become affiliated to each other. For some reason or another, e.g. migration in search of greener pastures, internal rivalry or/and conversion to modern religions, these indigenous communities are forced to move away from their original speech communities, and they call themselves by different names in their new localities, usually after the name of a river or a mountain. These factors and categorisation on the basis of similar cultural attributes have caused misinterpretation of the identity of the indigenous groups in the past. The paper will clarify some of the misconceptions regarding the ethnolinguistic groups in the region.
Pemikiran bahawa bahasa merupakan alat penyatuan bangsa adalah lumrah bagi negaranegara yang sebe... more Pemikiran bahawa bahasa merupakan alat penyatuan bangsa adalah lumrah bagi negaranegara yang sebelumnya merupakan tanah jajahan di bawah perintah bangsa luar yang menguasai kehidupan anak negeri dalam masa yang agak lama. Keadaan yang sebegini telah meninggalkan kesan dalam perkembangan beberapa aspek budaya, termasuk aspek-aspek yang terdapat dalam domain penggunaan bahasa yang penting, dalam kehidupan rakyat negara yang dijajah itu. Salah satu kesan yang dialami ialah kesedaran bahawa rakyat memerlukan lambang kewujudan negara yang setaraf dengan negara-negara yang tidak pernah dijajah atau yang sudah terlepas dari rantai penjajahan. Salah satu daripada lambang ini adalah bahasa, iaitu bahasa kebangsaan, yang dilihat sebagai perekat bangsa. Di Malaysia, pilihan bahasa kebangsaan jatuh pada bahasa Melayu, iaitu bahasa asal Tanah Melayu.
Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal
Malaysian aborigines can only be located in Peninsular Malaysia or Malaya. Linguistically, they a... more Malaysian aborigines can only be located in Peninsular Malaysia or Malaya. Linguistically, they are divided into two main groups, based on the languages they speak: one consisting of speakers of languages belonging to the Austronesian stock which places them together with the Malays, and the other of speakers of the Austroasiatic stock which relates them to the Mon-Khmer family of the hill tribes of Burma, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. This article focuses of the first group, consisting of six speech systems, examining their subgrouping based on their geohistory of settlement as well as the linguistic relationship between members of the subgroups. The result of this subgrouping is that five of the six are in dialectal relationship with Malay, while the sixth (originating from Sumatra) is a language in its own right. All the six can be linked to an ancestor form, the Proto-Malayic.
Oceanic Linguistics, 2015
Varieties of English Around the World, 2012
Status Change in Former British and American Colonies, 1940-1990, 1996