The Bidayuh Language Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
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SIL eBook 33
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The Bidayuh Language Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Revised and Expanded
Calvin R. Rensch Carolyn M. Rensch Jonas Noeb Robert Sulis Ridu
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The Bidayuh Language Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Revised and Expanded
Calvin R. Rensch, Carolyn M. Rensch, Jonas Noeb and Robert Sulis Ridu
SIL International? 2012
ii SIL e-Books
33 ?2012 SIL International? ISBN: 978-1-55671-295-1
ISSN: 1934-2470
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Contents
Foreword by Y. B. Datuk Michael Manyin Preface to the Revised and Expanded Edition
Part I Language Development in Bidayuh:
Past, Present and Future
1 Who are the Bidayuh? 1.1 The origins and character of the Bidayuh 1.2 Classifications of the Bidayuh, past and present 1.2.1 By location 1.2.2 By cultural characteristics--as Land Dayaks 1.2.3 The process of Bidayuh self-identification
2 Language development before 1963 2.1 The setting 2.2 Wordlists, dictionaries and other research 2.3 Christian materials 2.4 Education 2.4.1 During the Brooke regime (1841?1941) 2.4.2 During British colonial rule (1946?1963)
3 Language development after 1963 3.1 The Borneo Literature Bureau 3.2 The Bidayuh?English Dictionary 3.3 Radio Sarawak / RTM 3.4 Bidayuh singers 3.5 Majlis Adat Istiadat Sarawak 3.6 The Sarawak Gazette and Sarawak Museum Journal 3.7 Oral Traditions project 3.8 Continuing activities of the churches
4 Recent efforts to develop the Bidayuh language 4.1 Causes for concern 4.2 Efforts towards language unity and language development
5 The Bidayuh Language Development Project 5.1 Project goals 5.2 Some project objectives 5.3 Project activities 5.3.1 Linguistic research and presentation of findings
iv 5.3.2 A unified Bidayuh orthography 5.3.3 Learning that LASTS (training methodology) 5.3.4 Writers' workshops 5.3.5 Curriculum development 5.3.6 Dictionary workshops 6 Dreams for the future 6.1 Bidayuh Language Foundation 6.2 Bidayuh language taught in school as a subject 7 Concluding remarks 8 Addendum -- Events since 2005 8.1 Multilingual Education (MLE) 8.2 Materials development workshops 8.3 Playschools and kindergartens 8.4 The next step for Bidayuh MLE 8.5 Picture Dictionaries 8.6 Wordlist project 8.7 Bidayuh Language Online Project
Part II Nasality in Bidayuh Phonology
1 Introduction 2 Nasality 3 Sounds of Bidayuh
3.1 Chart of Bidayuh phonemes 3.2 Further explanation about specific phonemes
3.2.1 All Bidayuh dialects have a voiceless palatal fricative, /s/ 3.2.2 Most Bidayuh dialects have only one liquid 3.2.3 The semivowels (or glides), /w/ and /y/, have limited distribution 3.2.4 There are two laryngeal phonemes, // (glottal stop) and /h/ (glottal fricative) 3.2.5 The voiceless velar stop 3.2.6 The central vowel 3.3 Vowel dynamic 3.3.1 Vowel length in the ultima 3.3.2 Rearticulated vowels 3.3.3 Full vs. reduced penult vowels 3.4 Symbolization conventions 3.4.1 Types of brackets 3.4.2 Symbolization of canonical shapes (phonological constructs) 3.4.3 Symbolization of phonetic features of sounds
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