Beware Balinese accent


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Posted by Badak Sinting on Wednesday, 14. September 2005 at 10:03 Bali Time:

In Reply to: pronunciation posted by bel_bel on Wednesday, 14. September 2005 at 07:30 Bali Time:

Basa Bali stresses the last syllable and an A at the end becomes an OE.

Made is Maah-Day in Indonesian; in Bali it comes out as Madday.
Baik is pronounced with a glottal stop; you half swallow the K at the end of a word. You use it like a Cockney says Bottle as Bo-ull.
Saja is just sah-jah. In Bali it's ah-joe, sounds maybe more like 'juh' maybe. Depends upon your ear.

Peter.




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