Malay (and Javanese) loanwords in Frederick de Houtman’s Malagasy wordlist

Frederick de Houtman’s Malagasy language material (1603) consists of a wordlist and short prose texts. It represents a dialect spoken more than four hundred years ago in the Antongil Bay region on Madagascar’s northeast coast, which does not have a documented modern descendant. This chapter investig...

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Published in:	Wacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia
Main Author:	Alexander Adelaar
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universitas Indonesia, Faculty of Humanities 2024-10-01
Subjects:	malagasy malay javanese loanwords austronesian historical linguistics etymology
Online Access:	https://scholarhub.ui.ac.id/wacana/vol25/iss3/4/