The Corpus of Inscriptions in the Old Malay Language

Arlo Griffiths (1, 2)

1 HiSoMA - Histoire et Sources des Mondes antiques
2 EFEO - École française d'Extrême-Orient

After first proposing a definition of Old Malay as the variant of the Malay language found in documents written in an Indic system of writing, this contribution opens with some examples of the kinds of linguistic and cultural historical data that can be found in Old Malay epigraphy. Its main contribution is a provisional inventory of the corpus of Old Malay inscriptions.

Mots clés: Epigraphy; Malay language; Indonesian studies; Indic scripts; Java; island; Amulet

Domaines: Linguistique; Religions; Littératures; Histoire; Art et histoire de l'art; Archéologie et Préhistoire

Arlo Griffiths. The Corpus of Inscriptions in the Old Malay Language. Daniel Perret. Writing for Eternity: A Survey of Epigraphy in Southeast Asia, 30, École française d'Extrême-Orient, pp.275-283, 2018, Études thématiques. ⟨hal-01920769⟩