A Dictionary of Mah Meri as Spoken at Bukit Bangkong

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A Dictionary of Mah Meri OCEANIC LINGUISTICS SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS Numbers 1 through 25 and 28 are no longer available. 1. English in Hawaii: An Annotated Bibliography. Stanley M. Tsuzaki and John E. Reinecke. 1966. 2. An Ivatan Syntax. Lawrence Andrew Reid. 1966. 3. Manobo-English Dictionary. Richard E. Elkins. 1968. 4. Nguna Texts. Albert J. SchUtz. 1969. 5. Nguna Grammar. Albert J. Schlitz. 1969. 6. A Grammar of Kaliai-Kove. David R. Counts. 1969. 7. Chrau Grammar. David D. Thomas. 1971. 8. Philippine Minor Languages: Word Lists and Phonologies. Edited by Lawrence A. Reid. 1971. 9. Japanese Pidgin English in Hawaii: A Bilingual Description. Susumu Nagara. 1972. 10. Kapampangan Syntax. Leatrice T. Mirikitani. 1972. 11. Isneg-English Vocabulary. Morice Vanoverbergh. 1972. 12. Outline of Sre Structure. Timothy M. Manley. 1972. 13. Austroasiatic Studies, Parts I and II. Edited by Philip N. Jenner, Laurence C. Thompson, and Stanley Starosta. 1976. 14. A Bibliography of Pidgin and Creole Languages. Compiled by John E. Reinecke, Stanley M. Tsuzaki, David DeCamp, Ian F. Hancock, and Richard E. Wood. 1975. 15. A Handbook of Comparative Tai. Fang Kuei Li. 1977. 16. Syntactic Derivation of Tagalog Verbs. Videa P. De Guzman. 1978. 17. The Genetic Relationship of the Ainu Language. James Patrie. 1982. 18. A Grammar of Manam. Frantisek Lichtenberk. 1983. 19. The History of the Fijian Languages. Paul A. Geraghty. 1983. 20. For Gordon H. Fairbanks. Edited by Veneeta Z. Acson and Richard L. Leed. 1985. 21. The Causatives of Malagasy. Charles Randriamasimanana. 1986. 22. Echo of a Culture: A Grammar of Rennell and Bellona. Samuel H. Elbert. 1988. 23. A Guide to Austroasiatic Speakers and Their Languages. Robert Parkin. 1991. 24. Tonality in Austronesian Languages. Edited by Jerold A. Edmondson and Kenneth J. Gregerson. 1993. 25. Tinrin Grammar. Midori Osumi. 1995. 26. Toward a Reference Grammar ofTok Pisin: An Experiment in Corpus Linguistics. John W. M. Verhaar. 1995. 27. An Erromangan (Sye) Grammar. Terry Crowley. 1998. 28. From Ancient Cham to Modem Dialects: Two Thousand Years of Language Contact and Change. Graham Thurgood. 1999. 29. Grammatical Analysis: Morphology, Syntax, and Semantics: Studies in Honor of Stanley Starosta. Edited by Videa P. De Guzman and Byron W. Bender. 2000. 30. Nhanda: An Aboriginal Language of Western Australia. Juliette Blevins. 200 I. 31. Bislama Reference Grammar. Terry Crowley. 2004. 32. Otto Dempwolff's Grammar afthe Jabem Language in New Guinea. Translated and edited by Joel Bradshaw and Francisc Czobor. 2005. 33. A Grammar of South Efate: An Oceanic Language of Vanuatu. Nicholas Thieberger. 2006. 34. William J. Gedney's Comparative Tai Source Book. Thomas John Hudak. 2007. 35. Kokota Grammar. Bill Palmer. 2009. 36. A Dictionary of Mah Meri as Spoken at Bukit Bangkong. Nicole Kruspe. 2010. Publications may be ordered electronically from www.uhpress.hawaii.edu or by mail from University of Hawai'i Press, 2840 Kolowalu Street, Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822, USA. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publication No. 36 A Dictionary of Mah Meri as Spoken at Bukit Bangkong Nicole Kruspe Illustrated by Azman Zainal University of Hawai'i Press Honolulu © 2010 University of Hawai'i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 15 14 13 12 11 10 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Kruspe, Nicole. A dictionary of Mah Meri as spoken at Bukit Bangkong / Nicole Kruspe; illustrated by Azman Zainal. p. cm. n (Oceanic linguistics special publication; no. 36) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8248-3493-7 (softcover : alk. paper) 1. Mah Meri language-Dictionaries-Malay. 2. Mah Meri language-Dictionaries -English.3. Malay language-Dictionaries-Mah Meri. 4. English languageDictionaries -Mah Meri. I. Title. II. Series: Oceanic linguistics special publication ; no. 36. PL4420.K78201O 495'.92-dc22 2010007220 Publication of this work was assisted by a publication grant from the University of Melbourne, and a School of Languages and Linguistics Grant-in-Aid. Camera-ready copy for this book was prepared under the supervision of the series editor. University of Hawai'i Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Council on Library Resources Printed by 1BT Global This book is dedicated to the people of Kampong Orang Asli Bukit Bangkong. ...