A Grammar of Kelantan Temiar (complete)

With this document I release something of a data drop of information that has been waiting many years to be seen. I release it along with two other documents, those being my comments on papers by Geoffrey Benjamin on Temiar linguistics and my list of toponyms of the Puyan Valley in Kelantan. I'm releasing it here in case I get blowpiped or eaten by a tiger some day and everything gets lost!

This complete version contains phonology, nouns, toponyms, autonyms and kin terms, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs and syntax. There is a good deal said on verb inflection in the phonotactics section, and also much Temiar vocabulary is given in the Temiar/Semai comparison, together with a great list of ideophones, found in the Appendices, which means that there is more than plenty here for any linguist to digest.

I commenced this work with some bare lists of pronouns and spatial adverbs, that I had made back in 2010, while correcting the lists given in Means' dictionary. More recently, I came across Niclas Burenhult's grammar of Jehai, which has helped me to actually write about Temiar in proper detail. Geoffrey Benjamin's work on Temiar has also been an immense help, as, although I criticise his mistakes, he has made much useful analysis.

Latest updates: 03 2025 corrections to Verbs, Syntax etc.