"Kanala, tamaaf, tramkassie, en stuur krieslam"; Lexical and phonological echoes of Malay in Cape Town

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Tom HoogervorsT is a historical linguist working at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV). He is interested in Malay, Javanese, and other Austronesian languages, particularly in the insights their linguistic histories provide into forgotten episodes of inter-ethnic contact. He has previously looked at lexical borrowing between the languages of South and Southeast Asia. His latest monograph examines the plurilingual tradition of Indonesia's Chinese print entrepreneurs, whose "Sino-Malay" novels, newspapers, and poetry offer detailed portrayals of social life in late-colonial Java. He is also interested in Southeast Asian diasporic languages, cultures, and cuisines.