During my visit to Stockholm to attend the 2019 Wikimania conference, I had the opportunity to play karinding as a fatigue reliever, after a day of attending the conference. Karinding is a jawharp musical instrument from Sundanese culture, in West Java, Indonesia. On a slightly drizzly night, after returning from […]
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Penerjemah Paruh Waktu Bahasa Sunda dan Permasalahnnya
Sejak beberapa tahun belakangan saya telah mengikuti platform situs web freelancer yang tersedia di internet seperti Upwork, Project.id, dan Fiverr. Tujuannya adalah untuk melihat perkembangan para freelancer yang berkecimpung dalam penerjemahan bahasa Sunda, baik dari bahasa lain ke bahasa Sunda maupun sebaliknya. Dalam beberapa kesempatan, saya juga ikut megambil peluang […]
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Aér Mawar (Sunda Kuna)
Dina kamus basa Sunda Satjadibrata “érmawar” téh hartina “kembang ros bodas”. Ari cék Jonathan Rigg mah kecap “Ayěr mawar” hartina “Rose-water-Properly Malay.” lengkepna kieu: “Ayěr mawar, Rose water. The word Ayěr is not Sunda, but Malay, and shows whence the designation has come.” Cénah aya pangaruhna tina basa Malayu. Ieu […]
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The Development of Sundanese Speech Level and Its Usage in the Sundanese Language Wikimedia Projects
The Development of Sundanese Speech Level The Sundanese language is spoken by more than 30 million people in Indonesia and is concentrated in the western part of Java island. Therefore, Sundanese ranks the second largest spoken language in Indonesia after the Javanese. Written records that use Sundanese can be dated […]
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