Salako or Badamea

Sketch Grammar, Text and Lexicon of a Kanayatn Dialect in West Borneo

by K Alexander Adelaar

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Extent: 328 pages

Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag

Subjects: Asian/Pacific Studies & Religions, Language & Linguistics

Series: Frankfurter Forschungen zu Sudostasien

Series volume number: 2

Language: English

(Hardback) (Published)

(January 2005)

ISBN: 9783447051026

6.65 x 9.45 inches

Price: $109.00

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Salako, or bahasa Badamea as it is often called, is spoken in the northwestern tip of Borneo on both sides of the Malaysian-Indonesian border running through this area. It is a dialect of Kanayatn (Kendayan), a major Dayak language and one of the principal languages of West Kalimantan Province (Indonesian Borneo). The present volume contains a short grammatical description of Salako as well as a lexicon and a body of texts with translation (consisting of folk stories and fairly detailed accounts of local traditions).

  • By (author) K Alexander Adelaar