Aceh Swords

Rich · 7th November 2005, 02:47 AM

>I too have only read the words and how I say them is the southern USA way >and probably not too close to the Aceh way.

For us Virginians / Southerners, it would probably be something
like: pea-dang ya'll :-)

Rich S

RhysMichael · 16th November 2005, 04:43 PM

I am still trying to get more on this but Paul was very helpful and sent this

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Originally Posted by Paul Hansen

I don't speak "Sumatran" (or any other Indonesian language for that matter) but I'd imagine it's not to different from Javanese Pedang which is pronounced like "Pay-dahng".

In Dutch, the eu in Peudeueng is pronounced like the ö (o-umlaut) in German. There is no English equivalent AFAIK, the closest might be the u in dung. IIRC, in "Sumatran", it's a bit different, but somewhere in the general direction. So it's like Pödöng but different.

7th November 2005, 02:47 AM	#1
Rich Member Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: comfortably at home, USA Posts: 432	>I too have only read the words and how I say them is the southern USA way >and probably not too close to the Aceh way. For us Virginians / Southerners, it would probably be something like: pea-dang ya'll :-) Rich S