'basa kita'

(Title means Our Language / 'Bahasa kitani') 'Bahasa Tutong' is the language for the Tutong community in Brunei. My parents were born in Tutong, but I am not as fluent as one should be. So Ive decided that whenever i get back home for summer, I have to start collecting bits and pieces from the dad, grandma, and old folks at local kopitiam; and share them here. This is dedicated for my family back home, I miss you all

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Wednesday, January 31, 2007

bukuton ku jiyu duoh. mium tepap jiyu?.

im feeling abit naughty tonight..hehe

bukuton-ku jiyu duoh (boo-koo-tone-ku jee-you du-owh) = ku-tumbuk kau karang.

'bukuton ku jiyu duoh' is one of many phrases we have here in tutong. altho its a bad one, suprisingly the phrase is quite common among the tutong-ians. however most of us like to just utter those words; we dont have the intention to actually 'do' it. tutong-ians are not that mean..huhu (=


mium tepap jiyu? (mee-yoom te-pub jee-you) = minta tampar kau? do you want me to 'slap' you?

'tutong' mentioned in the tagboard that tampar is tepapon. we can use tepap or tepapon for tampar/slap. some people prefer tepap. while on some other occasions, 'tepapon' sounds better. ;)


2 for now, Salam everyone.

Nakalai~
nb: sorry for the lack of post in the next 2or3 weeks, i'll be going back to dunedin soon..tsk tsk. i'll definitely post something up once everything's good.(=

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