Language in Brunei

In my previous post, I discussed the possible influences of New Englishes on the future evolution of English. And I sent a summary of these ...

I recently saw this sign on the outside of a building in Brunei: Now, a purist might object that this is ungrammatical and argue that it sho...

Here is the headline from the front page of the Media Permata of 22 February: This can be translated as '25% of the Population of Brun...

Here is a picture of a hawkmoth (family Sphingidae ) that is common in the vicinity of the UBD Belalong Research Centre in Temburong. (I am ...

Here's part of another sign I saw in Temburong: When I first saw it, I thought there was a mis-translation, as mendakwa usually means ...

One of the curses of being a linguist is that, when everyone else is admiring the view, I stand there analysing the language of signs. And m...

In my previous blog, I discussed the Wallace's flying frog that we saw in Temburong. Here is another picture of a Wallace's flying f...

I just spent two wonderful days at the UBD Research Centre at Kuala Belalong in Temburong, on a Brunei Nature Society trip organised by my U...

In my previous post, I discussed issues concerning translation, particularly how to deal with brother . One of the reasons for this issue is...

In an earlier post ( rice ), I discussed the issues involved when we try to translate between one language which has a general term (a super...

My colleague, Adrian Clynes, has for a long time been making observations about personal names in Brunei. For example, my current class of s...

Here is a picture of my lunch today: Why do so many bloggers in Brunei show pictures of their food? How can anybody anywhere in the world po...

Yesterday, I was giving a short presentation on 'Teaching Electronic Communication' at a conference at ITB, and the question arose (...

I currently teach a module on translation at UBD. Translating from one language to another can provide interesting insights into the nature ...

In my previous blog, I discussed the Malay warning on a packet of cigarettes in Brunei. In fact, there is more that can be considered about ...

When dealing with two languages, it is interesting sometimes to compare the translated versions of texts, to see whether the two versions ha...

Brunei has recently introduced new vehicle registrations with three initial letters, rather than the two that were previously used. So lots ...

In my previous blog, I discussed the pronunciation of Thailand , specifically how it might be influenced by the meaning of [tai] in Malay. I...

Almost every word which starts with the letters 'th' is pronounced with a dental fricative, either [θ] or [ð], in most varieties of ...

In my previous entry, I discussed the pronunciation of 'next station' in the Singapore MRT announcements. One other feature of the p...