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A GRAMMAR OF MODERN BABA MALAY - NALA H LEE KAR...

This book documents modern Baba Malay  a critically endangered Austronesian-based contact
language with a Sinitic substrate. Formed via intermarriage between Hokkien-speaking male
traders and indigenous women in the Malay Peninsula  the language has less than 1 000 speakers
in Singapore and less than 1 000 speakers in Malacca  Malaysia. This volume fills a gap for
reference grammars of contact languages in general. Reference grammars written on contact
languages are rare  and much rarer is a reference grammar written about a critically endangered
Austronesian-based contact language. The reference grammar  which aims to be useful to
linguists and general readers interested in Baba Malay  describes the language's
sociohistorical background  its circumstances of endangerment  and provides information
regarding the phonology  parts of speech  and syntax of Baba Malay as spoken in Singapore. A
chapter that differentiates this variety from that spoken in Malacca is also included. The
grammar demonstrates that the nature of Baba Malay is highly systematic  and not altogether
simple  providing structural information for those who are interested in the typology of
contact languages.

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