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apolaki
15th June 2010, 12:42 AM
Beyond length of course, how are they different?

David
15th June 2010, 12:52 AM
Beyond length of course, how are they different?
Just to be clear, there has been a general tendency to make a distinction between Indonesian/Malay keris and it's larger Moro cousin which many here refer to as a kris, but i think you will find a great many people who call the Indonesian form kris and there are also those who would spell the Moro form keris. So i just think it's a good idea for us to remember that using these specific spellings for these distinctions is not universal in the the collector world.

Jean
16th June 2010, 11:16 AM
Beyond length of course, how are they different?

I naively thought that keris is the correct Malay/ Indonesian word while kris is just the translation or spelling in English and other languages (in France we call it kriss or criss). :confused:
Best regards
Jean

kronckew
16th June 2010, 07:26 PM
the moro one is also sometimes referred to as a kalis. :)