Language in Brunei

I wonder if the word majoriti has a shifted meaning from its source word 'majority'. Here is an extract from an article on page M9 ...

Here's one of the weirdest signs I have seen in Brunei. Let's now have a look at the wider picture, to see where these signs are p...

I have been working on the pronunciation of the indigenous languages of Brunei, hoping to make recordings available for people to listen to....

Rhoticity involves producing the [r] sound whenever 'r' occurs in the spelling, including at the end of words such as 'car' ...

One of my problems with this blog is allowing you to hear extracts of speech. While I can make pictures and videos available, speech seems t...

In my previous post, I discussed the number of monophthong vowels in Brunei Malay and suggested there are just three: /i, a, u/. How about ...

How many vowels are there in Brunei Malay? The simple answer is: three. /i/, /a/, /u/. However, things are not quite so simple. Indeed, the...

In my previous post, I discussed the pronunciation of 'monk' by our guide in Bhutan. In this picture, he is on the left, wearing tra...

Last week, I was in Bhutan. It was brilliant. While climbing up to the Tiger's Nest temple (see above), at one point we were walking beh...

In my previous post, I highlighted one of the chapters contributed by a student in our new book, The Use and Status of Language in Brunei Da...

In my previous post, I discussed the quandary I had in preparing a News Item for our Faculty website − specifically, whether to feature pict...

In my previous post, I discussed the tendency for local news reports to highlight the participation of members of the Royal Family or other ...

On page 1 of Media Permata of 18 November 2016, there are the following two pictures with a four-line caption below them, describing the pe...

On page 13 of the Media Permata of 18 November, there is a short article (sourced from the Malaysian Bernama organisation) with the heading...

The Streisand Effect describes a situation where efforts to prevent access to data have the opposite effect and actually increase access to ...

I have previously mentioned the frequent occurrence of Malay-English initialisms in Brunei (e.g. here ). Here are some Malay-English initial...

Just like most universities around the world, academics at UBD are judged by their publications, and in particular by the number of times th...

I was listening to the midday news on RTB Nasional FM today, and once again I heard Calais pronounced as /kʌlaɪs/ rather than the expected /...

I have sometimes previously discussed the tension between use of a native word of Malay and an equivalent borrowed word (e.g. petua vs. ...

My granddaughter, Elsie, aged 5 and a half, loves to write. Here is a little story she wrote on yellow stick-it sheets while we were visitin...