Manado Malay (Bahasa Manado)

Manado Malay is a Malay Creole with many Dutch and Portuguese loan words spoken mainly in and around Manado, the capital city of the North Sulawesi province of Indonesia. It has around 850,000 speakers and is used mainly as a spoken language - it is rarely written. It is also known as Minahasa Malay, after the Minahasa people, who are the main group who speak this language, or Manadonese.

Manado Malay alphabet

Manado Malay alphabet

Sample video in Manado Malay

Information about Manado Malay | Numbers in Manado Malay

Links

Information about Manado Malay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manado_Malay
http://www.ethnologue.com/language/xmm http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/ldtc/languages/manadonese/orthography.pdf
http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/ldtc/languages/manadonese/swadesh.html

Manado Malay phrases
http://wikitravel.org/en/Manado_Malay_phrasebook

Creole Languages

Betawi, Bislama, Cape Verdean Creole, Chavacano, Chinook Jargon, Dominican Creole French, Fanagalo, French Guianese Creole, Guadeloupean Creole, Guinea-Bissau Creole, Haitian Creole, Jamaican, Kituba, Manado Malay, Mauritian Creole, Nagamese, Ndyuka, Norfuk, Nubi, Palenquero, Papiamento, Pijin, Réunion Creole, Sango, Saramaccan, Seychelles Creole, Sierra Leonean Creole, Singlish, Sranan, Saint Lucian Creole, Tok Pisin, Torres-Strait Creole

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page last modified: 23.04.21

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