The documentation of Kupang
Malay is a work-in-progress being carried out under the Language and Culture
Unit (UBB-GMIT), Kupang. The current version has over 3,350 headwords and
includes homonyms, subentries, multiple senses, lexical relations, example
sentences, as well as illustrative photographs and drawings. The lexicon was
compiled in Toolbox following the MDF conventions
(Coward and Grimes 1995), and ported over to Lexique Pro. As a
work-in-progress, some of the entries are more reliable than others.
Copyright ©2000, 2003, 2008
UBB-GMIT, Kupang. Email: ubb-gmit@kastanet.org.
ISBN: 978-1-86892-594-0
Compilers: Charles
E. Grimes, Ph.D. (Linguistics,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University;
and SIL International) and
Contributers:
Rev. Max Jacob, M.Th. (deceased); Barbara Dix Grimes, Ph.D.; Rev. Erasmus
Zacharias; Rev. Adriana Dukabain-Tunliu, M.T.S.
Another 242 native speakers, both
male and female, old and young, educated and uneducated, from a variety of
ethnic backgrounds have given feedback on meaning and usage.
Photographs:
Charles E. Grimes, David Glasgow, Benjamin Grimes, Geoff Hall, Barbara D.
Grimes, Maryanne Cameron, Hendrik Therik, Bill Wells, Kirsten Leslie. [TIP: to
see the pictures more clearly, click on them once.]
Drawings:
Sandra Wimbish.
The Kupang language
(Ethnologue/ISO code mkn) is a Malay-based creole spoken by as many as
200,000 native speakers in and around the city of
As a work-in-progress there
are many words not yet included in this online dictionary. A snapshot of
statistics at 3,200 headwords reveals some interesting things about the
language. In compiling the dictionary so far, we have been concentrating more
on cataloging differences between Kupang and Indonesian. Nevertheless 19% of
3200 headwords are exactly the same as standard
Indonesian. Other interesting statistics are as follows:
· 55% of 3200 Kupang headwords are very different from standard Indonesian.
· 26% of 3200 Kupang headwords are similar to standard Indonesian words, but there are slight
differences in its pronunciation, its spelling, its behaviour in the grammar, its
use, or its range of meaning.
· 11% of 3200 Kupang headwords are idioms that reflect figurative meanings.
· 54% of 3200 Kupang headwords are composed of a single words.
· 36% of 3200 Kupang headwords are composed of phrasal lexemes (two or more words).
· 24% of 3200 Kupang headwords are borrowing from other languages (other than Malay or Indonesian).
· 10% of 3200 Kupang headwords are borrowed from Rote languages.
· 8% of 3200 Kupang headwords are borrowed from Dutch.
· 1% of 3200 Kupang headwords are borrowed from Portuguese.
· 7% of 3200 Kupang headwords have variant forms in Kupang (e.g. batong
~ botong).
Untuk melihat informasi yang lebih
lengkap dalam bahasa Indonesia, harap membaca Kamus Pengantar Bahasa Kupang (Jacob dan Grimes, 2003).
Last
updated: 10 April 2008
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