Cocos Malay
| Cocos Islands Malay | |
|---|---|
| Basa Pulu Cocos | |
| Native to | Australia, Malaysia |
| Region | Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Sabah |
| Ethnicity | 4,000 in Malaysia (2000)[1] |
Native speakers | unknown (1,100 in Australia cited 1987)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
coa |
| Glottolog |
coco1260[2] |
Cocos Malay is a post-creolized variety of Malay, spoken by the Cocos Malays of Home Island, Christmas Island, and those originally from the Cocos Islands currently living in Sabah.[1]
Cocos Malay derives from the Malay trade languages of the 19th century, specifically the Betawi language,[3] with a strong additional Javanese influence. Malay is offered as a second language in schools, and Malaysian has prestige status; both are influencing the language, bringing it more in line with standard Malay.[4]
Characteristic
- Javanese influence: cucut "shark", kates "papaya", walikat "shoulderblade" etc.
- First-person and second-person singular "gua" "lu" from Hokkien.
- Causative verb "kasi".
- "Ada" not only mean to "there is ...", but also is progressive particle.
- Possessive marker "punya".
- Third person indefinite "ong" from orang "person"[5]
References
- 1 2 3 Cocos Islands Malay at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Cocos Islands Malay". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Wurm, Mühlhäusler, & Tryon, Atlas of languages of intercultural communication in the Pacific, Asia and the Americas, 1996:686
- ↑ Ansaldo, 2006. "Cocos (Keeling) Islands: Language Situation". In Keith Brown, ed. (2005). Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2 ed.). Elsevier. ISBN 0-08-044299-4.
- ↑ Alexander Adelaar, 1996. "Malay in the Cocos (Keeling) Islands 1996".
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