*SOAP rings the globe

A recently published article on the Chaozhou dialect of Min spoken in Singapore states that the word sak7 burj2 -soap" (sap7 bunt in other Mm dialects of China and Taiwan) is a borrowing of Malay s a bu n (Li Yongming 1991:58). This claim may very well be true as far as it goes. But in directin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bauer, Robert S.
Other Authors: LaTrobe University, Australia
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/179315