Identiti masyarakat Thai di Langkawi dan satun dari perspektif geolinguistik

Hamzah, Siti Noraini and Jalaluddin, Nor Hashimah and Tinggom, Adriana Santa (2025) Identiti masyarakat Thai di Langkawi dan satun dari perspektif geolinguistik. The Asian Journal of Humanities, 32 (1). pp. 167-191. ISSN 1394-9330 E-ISSN 2180-4257

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Abstract

Space plays an important role in sustaining the human life. Topographic factors such as rivers, fertile lowlands and highlands become the main attractions for a community that wants to form a new settlement and its identity. No rigid demarcation line could stop the community from migrating to other settlements. We can also observe the distribution of language or dialects in this settlement. It can be either a monolingual community and/ or a mixture of dialects and languages simultaneously. This study examines Malay Satun’s dialect in Langkawi and Malay Satun in Thailand. This study adopts fieldwork research to garner substantial data. The respondents are the elderly, adults and adolescents who can provide primary data. Then, the data are transcribed and analysed based on the Geographic Information System (GIS). The four selected lexicons are “water”, “pillow”, “coconut” and “sharp”. The findings proved that the socio-cultural elements, history, migration, education and demarcation factors influence the dissemination of both dialects. The mobility of these two communities has shown a mixture of both dialects with high intelligibility even though they came from different regions. In addition, this study creates an innovation in the dialectology discipline as the GIS employed has successfully produced a new isogloss of the Malay dialects in both regions

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	identity, dialect distribution, Malay Satun dialect, Satun Thai dialect, Geographic Information System (GIS)
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Sustainable Tourism and Contemporary Languages
Depositing User:	Dr Adriana Santa Tinggom
Date Deposited:	29 Jul 2025 16:59
Last Modified:	29 Jul 2025 16:59
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/122364

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