Descriptive Study of Phonological Differences Between Bahasa Malaysia & Bahasa Indonesia by Farah Eleena Mahdzan: Fairy's Linguistics Paper on Indonesian/Malay Phonology

Descriptive Study of Phonological Differences
Between Bahasa Malaysia & Bahasa Indonesia
An Introduction to Linguistics Research Paper
by Farah Eleena Mahdzan aka Farah "Fairy" Mahdzan

In the winter quarter of 1998, I took a linguistics course at the university I attend. It was an introductory course to language in general, and we all had to write a project paper at the end of the quarter. Since I liked comparing Bahasa Malaysia with Bahasa Indonesia, I coined up a title for my paper, and it was:

Descriptive Study of Phonological Differences Between Bahasa Malaysia & Bahasa Indonesia by Farah Eleena Mahdzan

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I really enjoyed writing this paper. I enjoyed it so much that I am gonna put it on the web for all to be enlightened. :) But due to limitations of HTML in the sense that I am not able to express the phonetic symbols used in trancsriptions of words, I will use color-coded alphabets instead. Read away!