The Unique Sabahan Language

Short Explanation About Sabahan Language

There's so much reason to love and impress about Sabah. The food, history, culture, multiracial, friendly, especially the unique language which we called Sabahan Language/Slang. Its a little bit similar to Malay language, but more unique. For example:

-you do not understand me, I just want to eat fried rice (english)
-kau tidak memahami saya, saya cuma ingin makan nasi goreng (malay standard)
-ko tida faham sa bah, sa cuma mo makan nasi guring (sabahan standard)

Notice the differences? But what's the meaning of "bah" in that sentence?? Now that my friend, is a magical word for Sabahan people.

What does "bah" means??

Stop wasting your time on dictionary, cause' its not listed along. This might get you confuse, but I try my best to explain it, even majority of Sabahan people also facing difficulty in explaining this to other non-sabahan. So here we go...

"Bah" is a word that work as an additional word that has a different meaning on different sentence. "Bah" can be use at the beginning , middle, or end of a sentence (depends on the sentence, not every sentence is suitable).

EXAMPLES :
(Beginning of a sentence)

-Where are you now? (english)
-Awak di mana sekarang? (malay standard)
-Bah, ko di mana sekarang? (Sabahan standard)

(Middle of a sentence)

-You're from England, right? (english)
-Awak dari England kan? (malay standard)
-Ko dari England bah ni kan? (Sabahan Standard)

(End of a sentence)

-I'm tired too (english)
-Saya pun letih juga (malay standard)
-Sa pun panat bah (Sabahan standard)

That's just some of the simple sentence out of thousands. More over, a Sabahan will answer "bah" when they agree with you, its similar to "ok".

EXAMPLE :

-Yes, I agree with you (english)
-Ya, saya bersetuju dengan anda (malay standard)
-Bah. (sabahan standard)

That's all I can explained to you guys, because its way complicated when it comes to explaining more about the magic word of "bah". But I hope it will help you to get kickstart on understanding more about our unique language!
That's it for now steem-ians! Ciaaaooooo~~~~~~