12 April 2010

Bukit Tangahan

Bukit Shahbandar is a popular site for hill walking about half an hour out of the centre of BSB.

Between Pondoks ('huts') 4 and 5 of Shahbandar, there is an extra loop that is not shown on the maps, and the hill half-way round this extra loop is called Bukit Tangahan (where bukit means 'hill').This sign nicely illustrates the vowels of Brunei Malay. In Standard Malay, it would be Tengahan ('half-way point'); but as Brunei Malay only has three vowels [i, a, u] rather than the six vowels of Standard Malay, in the first syllable of Tangahan we find 'a' rather than 'e'.