sebutan baku

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Malay

Etymology

Compound of sebutan (pronunciation) +‎ baku (standard).

Pronunciation

Noun

sebutan baku (Jawi spelling سبوتن باکو)

  1. The pronunciation standard of a language that is most widely seen as correct.
    1. The artificial standardized accent of Malay where every letter has only one phonetic value as opposed to representing a phoneme which has various allophonic realizations (e.g. ⟨k⟩ is only pronounced as as opposed to as syllable-initially and as [ʔ] syllable-finally).[1]
      Synonym: bahasa baku (informal)
      Dalam sebutan baku, "biologi" disebut "bi-o-lo-gi", bukan "bai-o-lo-ji".
      In sebutan baku, "biologi" is pronounced "bi-o-lo-gi", not "bai-o-lo-ji".

References

  1. ^ Abu Bakar (2019) “Sebutan Johor-Riau dan Sebutan Baku dalam Konteks Identiti Masyarakat Melayu Singapura”, in Issues in Language Studies (in Malay), volume 8, number 2, pages 61-78

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