“Kanala, tamaaf, tramkassie, en stuur krieslam”; Lexical and phonological echoes of Malay in Cape Town

This article traces a largely forgotten Malay dialect which was historically in use among South African Muslims of Southeast Asian origin. Its use reached its pinnacle in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Some elements of the Cape Malay grammar, especially its phonology, can be reconstructed th...

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Main Author: Tom Hoogervorst
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities 2021-04-01
Series:Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
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Online Access:https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol22/iss1/3/