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JUNGLISH (JUNGLE ENGLISH)
October 12, 2005, 8:14 pm
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What is Junglish? Jungle English.. like one mentioned below:

Javelish.. The typical Javanese language: ‘lho’, ‘lha’, ‘tho’, ‘kok’, ‘ki’, etc

- Lho, I already bought that book !

- Kok, buying again ?

- I told you many times ‘tho’ !

- Lha, I didn’t know tho yo… how ki !?

- Don’t be like that, no….!?

Jakartenglish.. Jakarte English is marked by the ’sih’, ‘deh’, ‘dong’, ‘nih’, etc

- That book is very good, deh.

- Can you speak english?.. yeah a little sih I can!

- Use my money first nih..

- Give me more dong..

- How sih? Little little angry..

Surobenglish is marked by ‘tah’ and the famous word is ‘diancuk’

-Do you feel sick, tah ?

Other exclamation words of Java: ‘wo_’, ‘wah’, ‘wé_’, ‘jian’, and ‘jé_’

- Wé_ lha this book is mine jé…!

- Wo_, only like that tho!

- Wah, expensive, tho?

- Jian, Paijem is so beautiful tenan.

Sundanglish is also available such as ‘atuh’, ‘euy’, ‘mah’

- Well, if that kind, it pretty so-so atuh

- It can’t be that way euy..

- I am mah, not like that… anything else ?

There are also abundant ’sound effect’ in Javanesse language. 
- Suddenly, mak bedhengus den Tukiman appeared

- My head feels pain, mak cleng!

- Mak tlepok, I got a manggo !

- My chicken is suddenly died, mak cekengkeng

- Mak gedebug, Kampreté fell down.

- Mak jegagik…. Oh, trondholo !




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