A linguistic kaleidoscope of the Malay letter; The case of the eighteenth century official letters from the Sultanate of Buton
The Malay letters make up the largest category of documents among the Malay manuscripts preserved at Leiden University Library, the Netherlands. The corpus represents the scope of the territories under Dutch East Indies authority during the colonial era. In fact, they are authentic documents which d...
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Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities
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| description | The Malay letters make up the largest category of documents among the Malay manuscripts preserved at Leiden University Library, the Netherlands. The corpus represents the scope of the territories under Dutch East Indies authority during the colonial era. In fact, they are authentic documents which denote not only political contact between the local kingdoms in the Archipelago (Nusantara) with the Dutch East Indies government in Batavia during colonial times but also constitute an important source for the study of the historical development of the Malay language. This essay looks at the language characters of such letters which came from the court of Buton in Southeast Sulawesi. It aims to sketch the linguistic variety of the classical Malay language represented in its eighteenth century letter-writing tradition. Having specific diction and features that confirm local influences, the language of the letters shows distinctiveness in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8af5872134f94cb5857b7c734d410bde2023-07-12T01:27:50ZengUniversitas Indonesia, Faculty of HumanitiesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia1411-22722407-68992015-07-0116210.17510/wacana.v16i2.380A linguistic kaleidoscope of the Malay letter; The case of the eighteenth century official letters from the Sultanate of ButonS. Suryadi0Leiden UniversityThe Malay letters make up the largest category of documents among the Malay manuscripts preserved at Leiden University Library, the Netherlands. The corpus represents the scope of the territories under Dutch East Indies authority during the colonial era. In fact, they are authentic documents which denote not only political contact between the local kingdoms in the Archipelago (Nusantara) with the Dutch East Indies government in Batavia during colonial times but also constitute an important source for the study of the historical development of the Malay language. This essay looks at the language characters of such letters which came from the court of Buton in Southeast Sulawesi. It aims to sketch the linguistic variety of the classical Malay language represented in its eighteenth century letter-writing tradition. Having specific diction and features that confirm local influences, the language of the letters shows distinctiveness in terms of phonology, morphology and syntax.https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol16/iss2/3classical malay lettersmalay letter-writing traditioneighteenth-century malay languagemalay language varietycolonial timessultan muhyiuddin abdul gafurbutonsoutheast sulawesiindonesia |
| spellingShingle | S. Suryadi A linguistic kaleidoscope of the Malay letter; The case of the eighteenth century official letters from the Sultanate of Buton Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia classical malay letters malay letter-writing tradition eighteenth-century malay language malay language variety colonial times sultan muhyiuddin abdul gafur buton southeast sulawesi indonesia |
| title | A linguistic kaleidoscope of the Malay letter; The case of the eighteenth century official letters from the Sultanate of Buton |
| title_full | A linguistic kaleidoscope of the Malay letter; The case of the eighteenth century official letters from the Sultanate of Buton |
| title_fullStr | A linguistic kaleidoscope of the Malay letter; The case of the eighteenth century official letters from the Sultanate of Buton |
| title_full_unstemmed | A linguistic kaleidoscope of the Malay letter; The case of the eighteenth century official letters from the Sultanate of Buton |
| title_short | A linguistic kaleidoscope of the Malay letter; The case of the eighteenth century official letters from the Sultanate of Buton |
| title_sort | linguistic kaleidoscope of the malay letter the case of the eighteenth century official letters from the sultanate of buton |
| topic | classical malay letters malay letter-writing tradition eighteenth-century malay language malay language variety colonial times sultan muhyiuddin abdul gafur buton southeast sulawesi indonesia |
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