akeer wrote:Selamat pagi jerantutferry!
Apa khabar?
Selamat datang akeer. Saya pun boleh tolong jika mahu. Saya fasih berbahasa Melayu dalam semua loghat pantai timur dan utara. Ini termasuk Bahasa Melayu KL (slang). I'm also learning Uzbek and I'm familiar with Cyrillic, Arabic and Latin scripts. Apakah bahasa ibunda anda?
[Welcome akeer. I ....can help if you want. I am fluent in malay (berbahasa-ber..bahasa?) .... ..... .... .... east and north. this is..... Malay Language. I'm also learning Uzbek and I'm familiar with Cyrillic, Arabic and Latin scripts.
What is your native language?Ya, saya hendak tolong.
Lack of a complete english-malay dictionary, you could help me out with the words which I do not know.
From your post:
pun-
jika-if
fasih-fluently
berbahasa-?
dalam-in?
semua-all
loghat-?
pantai-beach?
timur-east
dan-and
utara-north
Termasuk-?
bahasa ibunda -native languageBahasa ibunda saya ini Hungary.
Saya cakap Inggeris dan Greek.
Saya belajar Melayu dan Sepanyol dan tiap datang dekat saya. (e.g.:Jerman,Italy,Rusia etc.)
Mengapa anda belajar Uzbek?
Terima kashik
P.S: You can correct my mistakes anytime!
Akeer orang Magyar ya? Baik, saya akan beri pertolongan dalam Bahasa Malaysia dan Bahasa Inggeris. Let me complete your list:
ber-bahasa - ber is a prefix to denote continuous present tense. Bahasa means language and in this context it means to speak a language. It's an alternative way of saying "I can speak Hindi" (Saya boleh cakap bahasa Hindi/Saya boleh berbahasa Hindi)
loghat - dialect (from arabic)
pantai - beach, coast
pantai timur - east coast (In Malaysia pantai timur usually means the east coast of the Peninsular. We refer to Sabah and Sarawak as Malaysia Timur).
termasuk - including. Again the suffix ter and the root masuk (enter)
I'll tell you all about the suffixes (ber, ter, mem, per etc) as soon as I can find how I can explain them
. I'm not exactly a linguist.
In the east coast states of Kelantan and Trengganu we mostly come from a mix of Indonesians (Java & Sumatra) and Indochinese (Cham Malays from Vietnam and Cambodia). Other contributors to the gene pool here include Arabs, Persians, Chinese etc. So actually Malay is not our original language so that's why our Malay is so very heavily accented. No Indonesian can understand us. I myself have Central Asian roots so that's why I want to learn Uzbek or Uighur.
And the correct form of thank you is terima kasih. But keep on saying "kashik" I think it's cute. I say it tima kaseh myself. You will find that in colloquial use, long words get truncated a lot especially in Malaysian usage. If it's easier for you I'm on YM using the same nick.