I was looking for the meaning to a word in an online source just now when I noticed it. My country's national language is not there! This source provided not just meanings, and various methods of pronunciation, but also a compilation of meanings from others sources, and the equivalent in other languages. If not mistaken, it gave the equivalent of the word in 16 other languages, but i did not see any Bahasa Malaysia. The translated local word was not available in Bahasa Malaysia, or Malay Language. And the next nearest language which the word had a translation is Bahasa Indonesia.
hhmmm....Wonder why it that so..
But certainly something for the country's linguistic experts and nationalism champions to look into, if they want to spread the words of Malay language to the world. After all, they always purport, Malay language could be the lingua franca of the world again, just like in the 16th century. Just need to look into the hows. Maybe could learn from our neighbours..
p/s: but, i blog in english...?
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
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