Considerations for Providing Etymological Information in the KBBI Indonesian Dictionary

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angličtina

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Considerations for Providing Etymological Information in the KBBI Indonesian Dictionary

Original language description

We discuss the inclusion of etymological information in the Indonesian dictionary KBBI (Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia) fifth edition. KBBI is the most comprehensive and authoritative Indonesian monolingual dictionary, published/launched by The Language Development and Cultivation Agency, under the Ministry of Education and Culture (Moeljadi et al. 2017, Kamajaya et al. 2017). It is mainly online-based (https://kbbi.kemdikbud.go.id), updated regularly, and will be enriched by etymological information from October 2019. This etymological information is valuable for the Indonesian language that has loanwords from various languages and language families: Austronesian (Old Javanese), Indo-European (Sanskrit, Persian, Portuguese, Dutch, English), Dravidian (Tamil), Semitic (Arabic), and Sinitic (Hokkien, Cantonese, Mandarin). The first etymology project began in the late 2000s, after the fourth edition was published. A team was formed based on the grouping of donor languages: (1) Arabic and Semitic languages, including Persian; (2) European languages (Dutch, English, and French); (3) Old Javanese; and (4) Chinese languages. Unfortunately, this project did not meet the target. Starting from the second etymology project, since 2016 each year we focus on two groups and involve experts from universities in Indonesia. We refer to previous work and references e.g. Jones et al. (2007). Etymology projects on Sanskrit and Old Javanese were carried out (2016~2017), after that Dutch (2017~) and Arabic (2018~). Data collection is based on the dictionary headwords. The technical part involves programming and database restructuration. The existing KBBI database will be augmented with etymological information-related tables containing the original scripts of the loanwords and the relationships within them as well as between them and the entries, enabling KBBI to present etymological relations of the loanwords accurately. We believe that the etymological information in KBBI will serve as a valuable resource and accompaniment to Indonesian historical, linguistics, and lexicography research.

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D - Article in proceedings

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OECD FORD branch

60202 - Specific languages

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O - Projekt operacniho programu

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings of The 13th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography

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978-605-77360-4-8

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Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

161-178

Publisher name

Asos Publisher

Place of publication

ELAZIĞ

Event location

Istanbul

Event date

Jun 19, 2019

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WRD - Celosvětová akce

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