Archive for November, 2009
Celebrating A Wedding Ceremony
Journal|Monday 30 November 2009|sundanesecorner.org The bridegroom was coming. He was welcomed by a "lengser" (the man in black) and some young dancers. (Photo: Hawe) BANDUNG---My family and I attended my niece's wedding ceremony in the sub-district town of Cisalak, Subang, West Java, on Sunday morning, November 29th. We call wedding [...]
Lamb of Iedul Adha
Journal|Saturday, November 28th, 2009|sundanesecorner.org BANDUNG----A sheep to be sacrificed in the day of Iedul Adha (left). In Sundanese, like in Indonesian, the word for sheep is "domba" . Some moslems at Jalan Negla, Bandung, are slaughtering sheep after Iedul Adha prayer, on Friday morning, November 27th, 2009 (right). Once a year, [...]
Akhmaloka was Elected as ITB Rector
Journal|Tuesday, November 24th, 2009|sundanesecorner.org BANDUNG---Dr. Akhmaloka was elected as Rector of Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) for 2010-2014. He won the election which was held at the office of Ministry of National Education in Jakarta, yesterday evening, surpassing his two contenders: Dr. Adang Surahman and Dr. Indra Jati [...]
Poet Wan Anwar Dies at 34
Journal|Monday, November 23rd, 2009|sundanesecorner.org BANDUNG-----Poet Wan Anwar has died at Sari Asih Hospital in Serang, Banten, this morning. He was 34, and it's said that he died of kidney failure. He left a wife and three children, including a 5 months infant. "I have really lost my most valuable half breath of my life," wrote [...]
Former Vice Governor Nasuhi Dies at 86
Journal|Tuesday, November 19th, 2009|sundanesecorner.org Colonel (retired) H. Ahmad Nasuhi, former Vice Governor of West Java and a prominent Siliwangi figure, has died today at a hospital in Jakarta. He was 86. Nasuhi was born in Ciamis, West Java, 14 September 1923. From mid 1940s to mid 1950s he had been active as an army officer, [...]
The Difference between ‘Tiis’ and ‘Tiris’
Language|Monday, November 16th, 2009|sundanesecorner.org Learners of Sundanese have often been confused with the difference between the word tiis and tiris . The meanings of the two adjectives are very close to each other, and yet the usage of these words are different. Tiis means 'cool, cold, fresh', whereas tiris means 'be cold'. The former [...]
Sundanese Talk
Journal|Sunday, November 15th 2009|sundanesecorner.org Center for Sundanese Studies (PSS), a small and non-profit organization based in Bandung, organizes a monthly talk on several aspects of Sundanese culture. This month, in cooperation with Garasi 10, a small gallery owned by Bandung-based artist and scholar Setiawan Sabana, PSS organized the [...]
Sundanese on TV
Culture|Friday, November 13th|http: sundanesecorner.org BANDUNG----Local television networks broadcast some programmes in Sundanese. One can watch the programmes aired by some Bandung-based television stations, e.g. Bandung TV, STV, and the state run TVRI Jabar & Banten. "Generally speaking, our programmes are designed in a [...]
Living Sundanese
At a new mall in Bandung an advertisement is read in Sundanese: 'Hapena hade pisan, facebook oge tiasa' (what a good cell phone, good also for facebook). In fact, as far as speech level is concerned, this advertisement is composed in a somewhat polite manner, except for the word 'hade' (it is better to use the word 'sae' which is polite). However, [...]
Sundanese-English Dictionary
Jonathan Rigg, an English planter working in West Java in 19th century, compiled the first Sundanese-English dictionary. His monumental work, A Dictionary of the Sunda Language of Java (Lange & Co., 1862), was published in 1862. The dictionary consists of some 9,300 entries. Some 141 years since the publication of Mr. Rigg's dictionary, [...]
