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Bacan-English Dictionary
More than 500 years ago, Malay was carried by Malay-speaking migrants in their voyages from Borneo to the eastern seas. The Bacan community is a diaspora community of Malay speakers who migrated the furthest from the western archipelago. A close examination of this Bacan dictionary will demonstrate the complexity of its affixation and reduplication systems as well as the genitive and agentive marking systems. This complex morphology suggests the retention of an older grammatical system now lost in standard Malay and Indonesian. Similarly, the dictionary contains archaic words and meanings, no longer used in the standard languages. Nonetheless, this dictionary also indicates the impact of other languages, in particular the local languages of North Maluku. Indeed, the language of the Bacan community has diverged and become a language closely related to Malay but no longer mutually intelligible with Malay or Indonesian.
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