Indonesian and Malaysian

This is a language pair translating between Indonesian and Malaysian.

Work Plan

Community Bonding Period (April 24, 2012 − May 20, 2012)
Week 1 (May 21, 2012 − May 27, 2012)

• Completing the Indonesian morphotactic and morphophonemic rules.
  
• Incorporating the extracted lemma list into the Indonesian monolingual dictionary.
  
• Adding more derivational subentries to the Indonesian monolingual dictionary.
  

Week 2 (May 28, 2012 − June 3, 2012)

• Continuing to add more derivational subentries to the Indonesian monolingual dictionary.
  

Week 3 (June 4, 2012 − June 10, 2012)

• Continuing to add more derivational subentries to the Indonesian monolingual dictionary.
  
• Completing the Malaysian morphotactic and morphophonemic rules. A significant portion of the completed Indonesian rules can be reused and modified as necessary, and moreover, new rules can be augmented.
  

Week 4 (June 11, 2012 − June 17, 2012)

• Extracting Malaysian stem words from the Kamus Dewan.
  
• Incorporating the extracted lemma list into the Malaysian monolingual dictionary
  
• Adding more derivational subentries to the Malaysian monolingual dictionary.
  

A more detailed work plan can be found in Work plan

Morphology

Verb-forming affixes

Affix	Function	Example	Segmentation	Lemma	Translation	Analysis
meN-	do something intentionally	membaca	meN+baca	baca (v.read)	v.read	baca<vblex><men>
	to use something as a tool	memalu	meN+palu	palu (n.hammer)	v.hammer	palu<n><vblex><men>
	to become	mengecil	meN+kecil	kecil (a.small)	become smaller	kecil<adj><vblex><men>
	to go to a place	melaut	meN+laut	laut (n.sea)	go to the sea	laut<n><vblex><men>
di-	to be done by someone	dibaca	di+baca	baca (v.read)	read [by someone]	baca<vblex><di>
ber-	to convert noun to verb	berdiri	ber+diri	diri (n.self)	stand	diri<n><vblex><ber>
ber-R		bermain-main	ber+main+main	main (v.play)	playing around	main<vblex><ber><pl>
ber-an	reciprocal action	bertabrakan	ber+tabrak+an	tabrak (v.hit)	collide	tabrak<vblex><ber><an>
ber-R-an	reciprocal action	berpeluk-pelukkan	ber+peluk+peluk+kan	peluk (v.hug)	hugging each other	peluk<vblex><ber><pl><an>
ter-	unintentional action	termakan	ter+makan	makan (v.eat)	eaten (unintentionally)	makan<vblex><ter>
ter-R		terapung-apung	ter+apung+apung	apung (v.float)	float	apung<vblex><ter><pl>
meN-i	locative	mendatangi	meN+datang+i	datang (v.come)	come (to a place)	datang<vblex><men><i>
di-i	locative, passive	didatangi	di+datang+i	datang (v.come)	visited	datang<vblex><di><i>
meN-kan	causative	mendatangkan	meN+datang+kan	datang (v.come)	make someone come	datang<vblex><men><kan>
di-kan	causative, passive	didatangkan	di+datang+kan	datang (v.come)	imported	datang<vblex><di><kan>
memper-	to make less or more	memperbesar	meN+per+besar	besar (a.big)	make something bigger	besar<adj><vblex><men><per>
diper-	to make less or more, passive	diperbesar	di+per+besar	besar (a.big)	made bigger	besar<vblex><di><per>
memper-kan	to change noun to transitive verb	mempertanyakan	meN+per+tanya+kan	tanya (n.question)	v.question	tanya<n><vblex><men><per><kan>
diper-kan		dipertanyakan	di+per+tanya+kan	tanya (n.question)	questioned	tanya<n><vblex><di><per><kan>

Adjective formation

Affix	Function	Example	Segmentation	Lemma	Translation	Analysis
ter-	superlative	terbesar	ter+besar	besar (a.big)	biggest	besar<adj><ter>
se-	same	sebesar	se+besar	besar (a.big)	as big as	besar<adj><se>

Noun formation

Affix	Function	Example	Segmentation	Lemma	Translation	Analysis
-an	entity	tulisan	tulis+an	tulis (v.write)	writings	tulis<vblex><n><sg><an>
ke-	abstract	kehendak	ke+hendak	hendak (v.intend)	will/intention	hendak<vblex><n><sg><ke>
peN-	actor	penjual	peN+jual	jual (v.sell)	seller	jual<vblex><n><sg><pen>
ke-an	abstract	kepandaian	ke+pandai+an	pandai (a.intelligent)	intelligence	pandai<adj><n><sg><ke><an>
peN-an	process	pengiriman	pe+kirim+an	kirim (v.send)	delivery	kirim<vblex><n><sg><pen><an>
per-an	theme	pertokoan	per+toko+an	toko (n.store)	shopping centre	toko<n><sg><per><an>

See also

• Pending tests
• Previous Morphology

External links

• Wikipedia: Differences between Malaysian and Indonesian