How many languages can you speak? How many languages your country speak? Okay, keep it by yourself I believe most of world’s people are at least bilingual, either naturally or academically, even many are also polyglots. You can speak two, three or more languages depend on individual basis. Some are monolingual by various reasons, such as,…
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(Sunday Writing) : Indonesian-Filipino Similar Words Recalled.
Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) is a standardized of High Malay officially recognized in Indonesia, meanwhile in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei, it has a slightly different standardized forms eventhough still have large mutual intelligibility. In general, all are actually dialectical variations and if it’s called different language, it’s about nationalism and political aspects. Filipino or standardized Tagalog…
(Linguistica Reflection) : From Asu, We’re Brothers
I found this meme picture from social media. It sounded funny as it told about how similar we are as Austronesian language family. Austronesian itself means ‘southern lands’ which stretched from Taiwan in the north to New Zealand in the south and from Madagascar in the west to Rapa Nui in the east. The largest…
(Tuesday Reflection) : Chinese influences in our languages
I think there have already been many articles or posts about this topic, but sometimes I still want to talk about it more, at least in my point of view. Since hundred years, Chinese have spread to around the world, through trading and immigration. Its culture and terminologies also followed especially in South East Asia…
(Cultural Revival?) : Typing Javanese Characters in My Computer
Javanese character? never be confused with Java programming system, meh. Javanese character has got two names : carakan and layang hanacaraka. It was derived from Southern Indian styled Brahmic writing system along by Indian merchants and missionaries at the time. Javanese script is under the same family with Sundanese, Kaganga group (from Batak to Lampung),…
(Multilingual poetry) : I am beautiful, right?
Bahasa Indonesia Aku cantik bukan? Menarik Anggun Mempesona Menggoda Kadang lucu Sedikit aneh Aku cantik kan? Bilang saja aku cantik Pokoknya cantik (biar hanya topeng) Biarkan aku bahagia English I am beautiful, aren’t I? I am…. Attractive Elegant Charming Seductive Funny in occassion Partially weird I am beautiful….right? Just say I am beautiful (Though just…
(Weekly Photo Challenge) : Get Connected…With Language
This week’s challenge for the first time confused me, as I had already given out most of the related themes in the previous challenges. So, for this challenge I give something different and in many parts not phisically connected. Language is the connecting tools for everyone. Without language, we cannot communicate our thoughts, ideas, feelings,…
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