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The Dutch adaptation of the Malay language during the colonial period resulted in the incorporation of a significant number of Dutch loanwords and vocabulary. This event significantly affected the original Malay language, which gradually developed into modern Indonesian. Most terms are documented in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia. [1]
The Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI ; lit. ' Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language ' ) is the official dictionary of the Indonesian language compiled by Language Development and Fostering Agency and published by Balai Pustaka .
Musi (Basé Musi) is a Malayic variety spoken primarily in parts of South Sumatra, Indonesia.While the name Musi in the broad sense can also refer to the wider Musi dialect network comprising both Upper Musi and Palembang–Lowland clusters, [2] it is locally used as an endonym specific to the variety spoken in the upstream parts of Musi River.
farmer o munene fat o mukaddomu old one agenda goes o mulimi o munene o mukaddomu {} agenda farmer fat old one goes One old, fat farmer is going. But it is absent when a noun follows a negative verb: tetulaba we don't see mulimi farmer munene fat tetulaba mulimi munene {we don't see} farmer fat We don't see a fat farmer. In Zulu, the augment is normally present, but it is dropped in cases like ...
The 250 or so "Narrow Bantu languages" are conventionally divided up into geographic zones first proposed by Malcolm Guthrie (1967–1971). [1] These were assigned letters A–S and divided into decades (groups A10, A20, etc.); individual languages were assigned unit numbers (A11, A12, etc.), and dialects further subdivided (A11a, A11b, etc.).
Within a subset of Southern Bantu, the label "Nguni" is used both genetically (in the linguistic sense) and typologically (quite apart from any historical significance).. The Nguni languages are closely related, and in many instances different languages are mutually intelligible; in this way, Nguni languages might better be construed as a dialect continuum than as a cluster of separate languages.
Chewa (also known as Nyanja, / ˈ n j æ n dʒ ə /) is a Bantu language spoken in Malawi and a recognised minority in Zambia and Mozambique.The noun class prefix chi-is used for languages, [4] so the language is usually called Chichewa and Chinyanja.
The approximate locations of the sixteen Guthrie Bantu zones, including the addition of a zone J Following is a list of Bantu languages as interpreted by Harald Hammarström , and following the Guthrie classification .