Hikayat Bayan Budiman (

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: حكايت بيان بوديمان ) is the Malay version of a tradition that begins with the

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Śukasaptati, The Parrot's Seventy Tales, an Indian work, in which a parrot tells 70 stories in order to prevent a woman from going on the wrong path. These chain stories, like the Arabian Nights, form the crux of the Indian storytelling tradition. An unknown author compiled it in the 6th century AD. It was later translated into Persian during ‘Ala-ud-din Khilji’s time (1296–1316) and titled '' Tuti Nameh''. In this process,

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characters replaced the Hindu ones. Versions of this fine collection of popular tales were transported from Persian adaptations that the Malay text was translated. According to the Malay text, this translation was done by a certain Kadi Hassan in 773 AH (1371 AD). The texts, which originally are written in

classical Malay Malay was first used in the first millennia known as Old Malay, a part of the Austronesian language family. Over a period of two millennia, Malay has undergone various stages of development that derived from different layers of foreign influen ...

, has been transcribed to Rumi (

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) alphabet which is the standard alphabet for the modern Malay ( Malay and Indonesian). The text is the oldest text in the corpus dated 1371, which, according to Malay Concordance Project (MCP) by Ian Proudfoot, contains 69761 words. A. Jehgoh, University of Lund,

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in his work ''Arabic Elements in Hikayat Bayan Budiman'' has analysed the Arabic

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in Hikayat Bayan Budiman.

References

External links

Arabic Elements in Hikayat Bayan Budiman
* Malay Concordance Projec

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