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Because of Klinkert's familiarity with the various regional dialects of Malay as well as literary Malay, he was commissioned in the same year by the Nederlands Bijbelgenootschap or NBG (Netherlands Bible Society) to complete a full translation of the Bible in literary Malay for the common use in both British Malaya and the Dutch East Indies ...
In 1964, Ramily Bin Thakir translated the Kural text in verse. [1] In 1967, Hussein Ismail translated the work under the title Thirukural Sastera Kalasik Tamil Yang. [1] [2] In 1978, G. Soosai's translation appeared under the title Thirukkural dalam bahasa Melayu. [1] The fourth translation appeared in 2013 by Singaravelu Sacchidhanandham. [1]
This was followed by a revision in 1996 by the Bible Society of Malaysia. [19] A formal equivalence translation of the Bible was published in 2015 and is known as the Alkitab Versi Borneo (transl. Borneo Version Bible). This is the first formal translation of the Bible in Bahasa Malaysia since Malaya became independent. [20]
In 1886, George Uglow Pope published the first complete English translation in verse by a single author, which brought the Kural text to a wide audience of the western world. [ 14 ] By the turn of the twenty-first century, the Kural had already been translated to more than 37 world languages, [ 15 ] with at least 24 complete translations in ...
Gurindam (Jawi: ڬوريندام) is a type of irregular verse form of traditional Malay poetry. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a combination of two clauses where the relative clause forms a line and is thus linked to the second line, or the main clause.
Pantun during Malacca era was featured in the most important Malay literary text, the Malay Annals [16] and is regarded as a high art and has been the integral part of classical Malay literature. It also thrived as a natural part in the daily communication of traditional Malay society and served as the important expressive tool in Malay songs ...
Velliveedhiyar has written 14 Sangam verses, including 8 in Kurunthogai (verses 27, 44, 58, 130, 146, 149, 169, and 386), 3 in Natrinai (verses 70, 335, and 348), 2 in Agananuru (verses 45 and 362), and 1 in Tiruvalluva Maalai (verse 23). [5] Her verse no. 23 in praise of the Kural is oft-quoted. [6]: 106
Malay as spoken in Malaysia (Bahasa Melayu) and Singapore, meanwhile, have more borrowings from English. [1] There are some words in Malay which are spelled exactly the same as the loan language, e.g. in English – museum (Indonesian), hospital (Malaysian), format, hotel, transit etc.