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Punan Ba, Beketan, Ukit

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We now come to the language of the Punan Ba, a tribe which according to Needham who devoted an article to it (217), is living on the Rejang and its tributary, the Ba, and also on the Kakus, the Jelalong and on a tributary of the latter, the Pandan. Urquhart gives a short wordlist (208), whilst Needham (217) mentions a few terms of relationship. The same language will have been indicated by Ray’s “Rejang (Punan)” (2, pp. 19, 68); he inserted words of this language into his comparative vocabulary, these words having been taken from a manuscript list by Page Turner, a “Punan” list by Brooke Low printed in Ling Roth (1) and a “Punan” list by Holland, included by Swettenham (43, 1). Concerning the linguistic relationship of Punan Ba to other peoples, Needham (217, p. 32) says that he knows little more than a statement by a Punan Ba spokesman, that no other language may be said to be close to Punan Ba; among the languages which would be relatively the nearest, the informant mentioned a number of Melanau dialects.

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