The sound system of Melaju Sini
Malay as spoken by younger Moluccans in the Netherlands
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2874398 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bert Tahitu (1. [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 144 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 276-296 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-90003297 |
| OpenAlex | W2039708659 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
1. As is generally known, the term 'Malay' is used for a wide range of linguistic varieties (Steinhauer 1980, 1987, forthcoming; de Vries 1980): it covers structurally distinct standardized varieties (Indonesian, Malaysian), dialects and dialect chains (along the east coast of Sumatra, the coastal areas of Borneo and in the Malay peninsula), and, finally, a number of pidginized varieties (such as Bazaar Malay) and 'cre?les'. The latter arose in urbanized centres where people from different linguistic backgrounds met and settled. These people presumably used a reduced form of Malay as their common means of communication, which subse quently became the mother tongue of the next generations, again devel oping into a fully fledged language. One such creole arose in Ambon town some 400 years ago (cf. Steinhauer forthcoming).2 This Ambonese Malay (henceforth AM) is only distantly related to the many Austronesian local vernaculars which are still spoken in most of the villages throughout the Moluccas (cf. Blust 1978; Collins 1983, 1985; Ekris 1864-65; Ho?vell 1876, 1877; Stresemann 1927). In many villages of the Ambon-Lease archipelago (which comprises the islands of Ambon, Saparua, Nusa Laut and Haruku) the use of these so-called
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2013 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |