Perkaitan bahasa Melayu dan bahasa Iban: satu tinjauan ringkas

Authors

  • Zaiton Darois Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
  • Rohani Mohd. Yusof University of Malaya image/svg+xml

Abstract

The Malay and Iban languages belong to the Austronesian stock. Therefore they came from the same parent, that is the proto Malay Iban parent language. Research shows that Malay and Iban shared many characteristics in common as opposed to other languages from the Austronesian stock. The relation between Malay and Iban are observed through the phonological, grammar and lexical aspects. The study shows that grammar and lexical units have over time maintained certain linguistic elements and lost others. Besides that, the lexicostatistics and glottochronology method was used to observe the level of relationship and determine the cognates features by using 100 words from Swadesh s lists.

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Published

2003-09-01

Issue

Vol. 3 No. 3 (2003): Jurnal Bahasa Volume 3 Number 3 September 2003

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