Asmah Haji Omar
Biographic Data
| ID | 2129044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Asmah Haji Omar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Asmah Haji |
| FAMILY NAME | Omar |
| SIGNATURE | OMAR A H |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7979-0970 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Symbols for ‘Hill’ and ‘Mountain’ in Malaysian Indigenous Languages
This paper contains a study of symbols which represent the objects hill and mountain, with data taken from 53 Malaysian languages and dialects over several decades. The objectives include constructing the ontology of the semantics of the words that represent the names for these objects, and to expose the connection between language and culture in these names. The theory I apply in the analysis is the theory of the sign. In Ferdinand de Saussure’s…
Symbolisation in Ancient Tales
Symbolisation can be interpreted as expressing what is real, not in terms of the actual thing that it is, but that which is represented in other forms. A narrative or a story that is in the mind of the writer or the storyteller is still in the form of ideas or concepts. It becomes a message when it is expressed in an organised form in the language medium that we call text. It is the text that forms the symbol to the story. In Ferdinand de Saussur…
Narratives and Indigenous History
Folk narratives are sources of information on the movements of people from one region to another, and who take with them their complex and plural speech systems. Other facts arising from their migrations include the routes taken, the motivations for their migration, the topography with its flora and fauna along the way of travel, and the meeting with people of different ethnolinguistic groups. Data for this study represents all the three main reg…
A Typology of the Spread of Malay
A great deal has been said and researched on the role of Malay, as the lingua franca in commercial areas of insular Southeast Asia, and as the national language of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei Darussalam. Its present-day status reflects its rise for centuries as a language of governance of Malay kingdoms in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatera, Borneo, and in the Moluccas. The presence of Malay in mainland Southeast Asia today extends its insular spr…
The Spoken Histories of the Indigenous (Part 1)
Folk narratives are sources of information on the movements of people from one region to another, and who take with them their complex and plural speech systems. Other facts arising from their migrations include the routes taken, the motivations for their migration, the topography with its flora and fauna along the way of travel, and the meeting with people of different ethnolinguistic groups. Data for this study represents all the three main reg…
The Malay Language in Mainland Southeast Asia
Today the Malay language is known to have communities of speakers outside the Malay Archipelago, such as in Australia inclusive of the Christmas Islands and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean (Asmah, 2008), the Holy Land of Mecca and Medina (Asmah et al. 2015), England, the Netherlands, France, and Germany. The Malay language is also known to have its presence on the Asian mainland, that is Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. As Malays …
Words of the World. The Global Language System
Post-imperial English in Malaysia
Language and the World-View of the Malay Peasants
Supranational Standardization of Spelling System
The Possessive Phrase in the Western Austronesian Languages
Asmah Haji Omar, The Possessive Phrase in the Western Austronesian Languages, Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 13, No. 1/2, Papers of the First International Conference on Comparative Austronesian Linguistics, 1974: Proto-Austronesian and Western Austronesian (Summer - Winter, 1974), pp. 391-407
The Possessive Phrase in the Western Austronesian Languages
Asmah Haji Omar, The Possessive Phrase in the Western Austronesian Languages, Oceanic Linguistics, Vol. 13, No. 1/2, Papers of the First International Conference on Comparative Austronesian Linguistics, 1974: Proto-Austronesian and Western Austronesian (Summer - Winter, 1974), pp. 391-407
Supranational Standardization of Spelling System
Language and the World-View of the Malay Peasants
Post-imperial English in Malaysia
Words of the World. The Global Language System
The Spoken Histories of the Indigenous (Part 1)
Folk narratives are sources of information on the movements of people from one region to another, and who take with them their complex and plural speech systems. Other facts arising from their migrations include the routes taken, the motivations for their migration, the topography with its flora and fauna along the way of travel, and the meeting with people of different ethnolinguistic groups. Data for this study represents all the three main reg…
The Malay Language in Mainland Southeast Asia
Today the Malay language is known to have communities of speakers outside the Malay Archipelago, such as in Australia inclusive of the Christmas Islands and the Cocos (Keeling) Islands in the Indian Ocean (Asmah, 2008), the Holy Land of Mecca and Medina (Asmah et al. 2015), England, the Netherlands, France, and Germany. The Malay language is also known to have its presence on the Asian mainland, that is Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam. As Malays …
A Typology of the Spread of Malay
A great deal has been said and researched on the role of Malay, as the lingua franca in commercial areas of insular Southeast Asia, and as the national language of Malaysia, Indonesia, and Brunei Darussalam. Its present-day status reflects its rise for centuries as a language of governance of Malay kingdoms in the Malay Peninsula, Sumatera, Borneo, and in the Moluccas. The presence of Malay in mainland Southeast Asia today extends its insular spr…
Narratives and Indigenous History
Folk narratives are sources of information on the movements of people from one region to another, and who take with them their complex and plural speech systems. Other facts arising from their migrations include the routes taken, the motivations for their migration, the topography with its flora and fauna along the way of travel, and the meeting with people of different ethnolinguistic groups. Data for this study represents all the three main reg…
Symbolisation in Ancient Tales
Symbolisation can be interpreted as expressing what is real, not in terms of the actual thing that it is, but that which is represented in other forms. A narrative or a story that is in the mind of the writer or the storyteller is still in the form of ideas or concepts. It becomes a message when it is expressed in an organised form in the language medium that we call text. It is the text that forms the symbol to the story. In Ferdinand de Saussur…
Symbols for ‘Hill’ and ‘Mountain’ in Malaysian Indigenous Languages
This paper contains a study of symbols which represent the objects hill and mountain, with data taken from 53 Malaysian languages and dialects over several decades. The objectives include constructing the ontology of the semantics of the words that represent the names for these objects, and to expose the connection between language and culture in these names. The theory I apply in the analysis is the theory of the sign. In Ferdinand de Saussure’s…
Linguistics (8 works) · History (7 works) · Malay (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Ethnology (3 works)