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Karuda Press— Bugis Dictionary Project
This project makes available lexical material from Bugis, a major Austronesian
language. Bugis is spoken in much of the province of South Sulawesi in
Indonesia and, through migration, in many other areas of Indonesia and
Malaysia. It has a written literature dating from about 1400 CE onwards.
The project draws on existing dictionaries to construct a Toolbox file from
which various products are drawn. The most important is Product 1, a
Bugis-English dictionary. Products using other languages and reverse
dictionaries may be considered later.
A preliminary account of the project may be found in Campbell Macknight, ‘To rescue a beached whale: the translation of Matthes’ Bugis dictionary’, in Jan van der Putten and Mary Kilcline Cody (eds), Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World, NUS Press, Singapore, 2009, pp. 304–18.
Successive versions of Products will be mounted on this website as they become
available.
The most important source of material is BF Matthes, Boegineesch-Hollandsch Woordenboek met Hollandsch-Boeginesche Woordenlijst…, M. Nijhoff, Amsterdam, 1874. The full text of this item is available on the
National Library of Australia website, along with its accompanying Ethnographic
Atlas and a Supplement from 1889. These can be accessed through the library’s catalogue or on the links below:
A list of other dictionaries and useful books is in preparation.
Last revised 21 February 2011
