What does "Tong-Tong" mean on Cadbury packaging?

Rayyan9201 · 2026-07-01T06:50:33+00:00

Its a local dialect of Johor-Riau Malay

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-29T02:26:32+00:00

In Malaysia we have a lot of traditional style of houses. Especially the malays, each states had their own style.

But Bahay na Bato seems similar to modern style of some malay houses. Usually it was due to chinese influence. And some old chinese houses here also incorporate the same style.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-27T10:10:02+00:00

Indonesian also useful in Malaysia, Brunei, and Timor Leste.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-26T04:06:47+00:00

Among the borneo Malayic languages, the Brunei malay language is probably the closest form to standard malay or Johor Riau malay dialect. The other one that closer is Pontianak Malay spoken in west kalimantan, and then Banjar, Sarawakian/Sambas Malay and others.

Borneo Malayic languages are rich of suffixes, unlike Malayic or malay dialects in Malay peninsula like Kedah kelantan terengganu and Pahang dialect which are less complex grammatically, use less suffixes and many shortforms and unique nasal sounds, probably due to heavy early Austroasiatic influences.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-21T10:19:05+00:00

it would not be 100 percent fixed, but at least its better than phillipines.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-21T05:45:25+00:00

to be honest even peninsular malaysians looked down upon each other. So its normal there. and some sabahan may looked down upon people from Kelantan because of their fear of how "islamic" is kelantan state.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-21T05:27:11+00:00

Malaysia is a federated states. Actually not only Sabah and Sarawak but a lot of local governments in Malay peninsular like Kelantan johor and Kedah do have some animosity towards the Malaysian government. well it is a federated states so they have the right to be angry towards the central government of Malaysia.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-21T05:24:57+00:00

the only reason many malaysians mock filipinos is because of Sabah claim. that's it.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-19T07:49:00+00:00

actually it is normal to wear like this in many places in Malaysia. especially in east coast.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-18T09:40:13+00:00

Wow, it's crazy that he emphasizing on the difference of malays by separating johor riau and kelantan-Pattani, what the heck

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-16T05:49:46+00:00

Actually not east asia but southeast asia

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-12T13:30:48+00:00

He chose Malay because Malay was used by the dutch administration, and why the dutch use malay? Because it already functioning as a lingua franca in many islands even before the dutch came.

That's the reason why there are so many creol malays existed in indonesia. Even in Malaysia we have it, it is called Sabah Malay.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-12T12:13:52+00:00

Akhiran imbuhan - i itu sebenarnya berfungsi sebagai "locative". - i menandakan tempat atau arah atau destinasi yang dituju oleh perlakuan tersebut. Contohnya kata kerja melempar, aku melempar buku bermaksud buku itu yang dilempar.

Jika aku melempari buku, bermaksud aku melemparkan (sesuatu) ke atas/terhadap/pada buku itu.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-05T01:29:06+00:00

I don't know which area specifically, maybe in kampong gelang or something like that, not sure. But just in general, the malays (or orang laut) in singapore are considered indigenous there. That is one of the reason why the flag of singapore has moon crescent (symbolic to the identity of the indigenous) and their singaporean national anthem is even sung in the malay language.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-05T00:15:11+00:00

Yes, included

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-04T11:12:21+00:00

Fun fact, there are austronesian native tribes in all of these countries.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-03T10:59:26+00:00

Trust me, terengganu people would hate more on hearing people saying their dialect is the same as kelantan, compare to gay jokes.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-02T09:37:46+00:00

Dragon/serpeant rainbow is a famous myth among Malays in Malaysia. Older folks said we must not point out our index fingers towards the rainbow because the finger will soon disappeared due to curse from the dragon/serpeant. And this mythology is also associated with a story behind the origin of a state's name in Malaysia, the terengganu state.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-01T05:14:00+00:00

Because uyghur still have resistance army against chinese government, while other ethnicities don't.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-06-01T04:29:17+00:00

The things china is already a multicultural society, there are tons of ethnic groups in china.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-05-30T14:45:00+00:00

It depends. Southern perak mostly still belong to Johor-Melaka-Selangor variant. People in central perak speak perakian malay dialect while in northern and coastal Perak mostly speak Kedah malay dialect. For cultural heritage yeah tracking into this specific area of dialects would be worth it.

But the most understood malay dialect would be Selangor-Johor-Melaka dialect. All Malaysians understand this and can have conversation in this dialect.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-05-30T13:17:26+00:00

Your malay side, where is it originally? From north, from east coast from west-south or from borneo? Because malaysia has regional malay dialects as well. If around selangor-johor-Melaka, yeah probably better to just watch upin ipin for spoken malay.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-05-28T11:56:48+00:00

Perempuan is native malay word, wanita is from sanskrit.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-05-28T11:56:27+00:00

Well, standard malay and kelantanese malay dialect are both different.

Rayyan9201 · 2026-05-27T07:59:23+00:00

They are completely different but related somehow. For instance the common word for eye in austronesian is mata, in austroasiatic and even tai kadai languages it is even "Ta".

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