Salako Or Badameá

Download or read book Salako Or Badameá written by K. Alexander Adelaar and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Salako, or bahasa Badamea as it is often called, is spoken in the northwestern tip of Borneo on both sides of the Malaysian-Indonesian border running through this area. It is a dialect of Kanayatn (Kendayan), a major Dayak language and one of the principal languages of West Kalimantan Province (Indonesian Borneo). The present volume contains a short grammatical description of Salako as well as a lexicon and a body of texts with translation (consisting of folk stories and fairly detailed accounts of local traditions).