It’s not broken, it’s Sabahan: How Malay became the lingua franca in this east Malaysian state

[BorneoPost] - 01/26/2025

KOTA KINABALU (Jan 26): In Sabah, this casual three-word greeting “kau sudah makan?” can be arranged around any way and still mean the same thing: “Have you eaten?” Linguist Jane Wong said that in standard Bahasa Malaysia, there is only one grammatically correct way to order the sentence. “But (…)



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