"Gay" Language and Indonia: Registerg Belongg on JSTOR

Contents:

• TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–INDONIAN DICTNARY
• HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY INDONIAN
• BAHASA GAY IS BAHASA GL
• THE GAY ARCHIPELAGO: SEXUALY AND NATN INDONIA. BY TOM BOELLSTORFF. PRCETON, N.J.: PRCETON UNIVERSY PRS, 2005. XIII, 282 PP. $65.00 (CLOTH); $27.95 (PAPER).
• HOW TO SAY GAY INDONIAN
• GAY INDONIA
• IT’S NOT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY INDONIA, BUT POLICE ARE CRACKG DOWN ANYWAY

TRANSLATN OF GAY – ENGLISH–INDONIAN DICTNARY

kamu gay.

gay. "Gay" Language and Indonia: Registerg Belongg on JSTOR. It is important to note that the same-sex soc-sexual behavr observed the study is distct om homosexual behavr bee s motivatn and purpose are social, said Jean-Baptiste Le, who studi primate behavr at the Universy of Lethbridge Canada and was not volved the new rearch.

HOW TO SAY YOU ARE GAY INDONIAN

To be classified as te homosexual behavr, the form, motivatn and functn would all have to be sexual nature, he said. Many homosexual men Indonia speak what they ll bahasa gay ‘gay language’, a lguistic phenomenon based upon bahasa Indonia (Indonian), Indonia’s natnal language.

Bahasa gay, is also known by gay men and other Indonians as bahasa banci, a closely related language variety. Banci is a natnwi (and somewhat rogatory) term for male-to-female transvt; two well-known bahasa gay/banci variants of the term are ban and benng (th this language is also lled bahasa ban or bahasa benng). To date, the fundamental ndn of bahasa gay’s existence is that although some terms transform words om lol languag such as Javane or Bale, at the overall grammatil level bahasa gay is always based on Indonian (bahasa Indonia), the natnal vernacular.

Although Indonia has nsirable lguistic diversy, bahasa gay is a self-nscly natnwi way of speakg. All of the rivatnal patterns ed to produce bahasa gay lexem origated one regn of Indonia but beme natnally distributed through gay social works. Competence bahasa gay clus tonatn, pragmatics, and iology about bahasa gay self, but what gay men (and those who appropriate bahasa gay) find most salient is lexin.

BAHASA GAY IS BAHASA GL

There are several ways to create gay terms. Syllabic substutn bahasa gay.

THE GAY ARCHIPELAGO: SEXUALY AND NATN INDONIA. BY TOM BOELLSTORFF. PRCETON, N.J.: PRCETON UNIVERSY PRS, 2005. XIII, 282 PP. $65.00 (CLOTH); $27.95 (PAPER).

Bahasa gay term. Only a handful of bahasa gay terms origate this manner; bahasa gay is a language of transformatn. Neologisms bahasa gay.

Semantic shiftg is a feature of non-gay urban language as well, where is termed pletan (Chambert-Loir 1984; Oetomo 2001).

Semantic shift bahasa gay. Meang bahasa Gay. Another important rivatnal procs bahasa gay is suffixatn and vowel shift (Table below), which is ually ed to transform a standard Indonian term but ocsnally volv a bahasa gay em, a lol language term, or an English loanword.

HOW TO SAY GAY INDONIAN

Suffixatn and vowel shift bahasa gay.

bahasa gay term. New bahasa gay term.

homo. homosexual.

GAY INDONIA

sick(‘attracted to the same sex bahasa gay).

De Oetomo suggts that suffixatn and vowel shift first appeared Jakarta and areas most directly fluenced by the Jakartan dialect of Indonian; he also not that a few terms of –ong shiftg, namely benng, om banci ‘male transvte’, and nepsong, om napsu ‘sire’, appear to have e to existence before bahasa gay took form (2001:62). As the se of all other rivatnal procs for bahasa gay, the most mon kds of transformed words are nouns and adjectiv.

Though far ls emphasized than patterned lexin, speakg what is nsired to be an effemate manner is also sometim asserted by gay men to be ditive of bahasa gay. By ‘effemate’ (standard Indonian kewanaan or fem; bahasa gay terms clu ngondhek, megol, krg ‘curly’), the men refer to the high-pched tone and risg utterance–final tonatn that Indonians associate wh imag of mure femy and softns (lembut).

IT’S NOT ILLEGAL TO BE GAY INDONIA, BUT POLICE ARE CRACKG DOWN ANYWAY

Bahasa gay so rarely serv the e of secrecy.

Its existence is to stabilize social relatns, creatg a sense of siary and to voke a sense of gay muny. Gay men n sometim be openly gay the prence of normal Indonians, pecially if they work a salon.