Malay and Iban Languages

Some of Asian Languages: MALAY AND IBAN
Siti Fairuz Mohd Fauzi 122339 Rabiatul Adawiyah Shamsuddin 122336
Malay Language
Overview of the language Issues in Malay language The future of Malay language
History of Malay language is started during the ancient times when Parameswara first came to Temasik. Malacca which is that time a part of Malay archipelago grew quickly and become a melting pot for all traders all over the world. There are over 80 languages are spoken that time.
Malay language once reached its apex as lingua franca for trade and government.
After the Malaysia Formation in 16 September 1963, it is agreed by all that the Malay Language is dubbed as national language. The Malay language is now are widely spoken to Peninsular Malaysia, Singapore, Sumatera, and the group of islands south of Singapore.
Issues in Malay Language

MALAY LANGUAGE STATUS IN THE FUTURE
LEARNING OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS
MANGLISH AFFECT THE VALUES OF MALAY LANGUAGE
Maths and Science in English

The policy of PPSMI was introduced by the forth Prime Minister, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad in 2003.
It aimed to improve the command of the English language among pupils at primary and secondary schools in Malaysia. The amount of 8 billions are wasted according to Pragalaths study in 2013. In 2012 the announcement of the policy's termination by the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin is indeed very surprising.
The issue that came along with this context is that public says the usage of the English languge in Science and Mathematics will challenge the power of Malay language .
According to Husin in 2008, those students who think that learning those subject in English more difficult is due to the reason that they themselves do not posses good commands of English.
Does Manglish affects the language?

Malaysians tend to mix one or more languages in colloquial conversations. Bahasa rojak or known as Manglish creole is discouraged by many concerned society, especially educationists and linguists. The usage of this creoles will affect the purity of the Malay language and might dies out the language if no awareness is taken. Manglish or bahasa rojak might give the impression of low proficiency of English and Malay languages in
Future of Malay language

Malay language is not on this extinction list, considering it is the mother tongue of 300 million people.
Malay language will then, probably, become the pidgin language for daily communication.
If this happens, the Malay language will be considered equivalent to the languages of the Orang Asli, or the languages of the numerous indigenous communities in Sabah and Sarawak.
History of Iban Language

Known as Jaku Iban is spoken by the Iban people
Belong to Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian language family, and is related to Malay, more closely to Sarawakian Malay. Different from other Bornean languages, and shares a few numbers of words with Malay language.
One of the languages given the status of POL (Pupils Own Language)
A few numbers of Iban people use English and Malay as their medium of communication
Dialects
Different dialects according to the ethnic.
The formal dialect is Saribas which mainly at Batong and Saratok. The other dialects are Remuns, Balaus, Sebuyaus, Ulu Ai or Rejangs.
But it will be hard if they speak with other dialects in Kalimantan such as Bugaus, Seberuangs, Mualangs, Chengkangs, Sebaruks, Daus and the others because of the different terms and words.
English
Balaju (Sarawak)
Mualang (Kalimantan)
Rooster Smell Stupid Twin Father
Manok Nyium Tuyu, Banga Sapit Penyinga
Renyau Lulum Mawa Rakup Telingu
Alphabets
It is written in Latin alphabet which consists of 26 letters. Iban has its own characters to represent the phonological sounds. There are 77 characters were invented in 1947 by Dunging.
Bagat Nunui, Dungings adopted son has refined these characters and then in 2011, Dr Bromeley Philip, a professor at UiTM in Sarawak has started to teach a course using this script.
Pronounciation
It is quite the same with Malay language.
The phonetics used to symbolize the pronunciation is a little bit similar with Malay language.
Grammar
Some of the grammar is closely related to Malay grammar. Follows the order of verb-object-subject. I read a book "Macha bup aku" Objects are placed after the verb Macha bup aku Another example: I'm going shopping with my friend "Raun enggau bala bakih ke pasar aku"
References
Sutlive, Vinson H. (1978), The Iban of Sarawak. Arlington Heights, Ill.: AHM Publishing Corp. Prospect Heights, Ill.: Waveland Press. Freeman, Derek (1970), Report on the Iban, Monographs on Social Anthropology, London: London School of Economics. Sutlive, Vinson (1996), Iban Encyclopedia of World Cultures: Retrieved on 2013, November 20 from http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G23458000797.html

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Some of Asian Languages: MALAY AND IBAN

Siti Fairuz Mohd Fauzi 122339 Rabiatul Adawiyah Shamsuddin 122336

Issues in Malay Language

LEARNING OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS

MANGLISH AFFECT THE VALUES OF MALAY LANGUAGE

Maths and Science in English

Does Manglish affects the language?

Future of Malay language

History of Iban Language

Rooster Smell Stupid Twin Father

Manok Nyium Tuyu, Banga Sapit Penyinga

Renyau Lulum Mawa Rakup Telingu

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