The Malaysian Baba pantun database

It is interesting to note that baba nyonya in the Straits Settlements managed to develop a body of literature using Romanized Malay by the end of the 1890s. In doing so, they independently started a Sino-Malay literary movement, a few years after their cousins in Java had done the same thing. This p...

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Main Author: Ding, Choo Ming (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 2004.
Online Access:Get fulltext
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