To be quick, (in a) hurry(ing) (also an interjection) Also first person pluralįunny (adj.), derived from Charlie ChaplinĬf. To be used either like 'kitani' or 'biskita' The researcher concluded that except Chinese, "minority languages in Brunei have no visibility and play a very marginal role beyond the family and the small community." Vocabulary words Bruneian Malayįirst person singular when in conversation with a Royal Family Memberįrom '(si) awang' and '(si) dayang'. Ĭoluzzi studied the street signs in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital city of Brunei Darussalam. It has been estimated that 94% of the words of Brunei Malay and Kedayan are lexically related. Brunei Malay is used by the numerically and politically dominant Brunei people, who traditionally lived on water, while Kedayan is used by the land-dwelling farmers, and the Kampong Ayer dialect is used by the inhabitants of the river north of the capital. īrunei Malay, Kedayan and Kampong Ayer can be regarded as different dialects of Malay. ^ Some analysts exclude /w/ and /j/ from this table because they are 'margin high vowels', while others include /w/ but exclude /j/.
Exceptions can be found in a few borrowed words such as mac 'March' and kabab 'kebab'.
^ /t/ is dental in many varieties of Malay, but it is alveolar in Brunei.The consonantal inventory of Brunei Malay is shown below: