Buginese, n. and a.
(bʊgɪˈniːz, -s)
[f. Bugis: see -ese.]
= Bugis n. (and a.)
| 1900 J. G. Frazer Golden Bough (ed. 2) II. 449 The Buginese and Macassars of Celebes. 1910 Encycl. Brit. V. 598/1 The Macassar language, which belongs to the Malayo–Javanese group, is spoken in many parts of the Southern peninsula; but it has a much smaller area than the Buginese, which is the language of Boni. 1948 D. Diringer Alphabet ii. vii. 431 The Buginese or Bugis character is the most complete of the three varieties. 1948, 1959 [see Macassarese]. 1970 R. Roolvink in C. C. Brown tr. Sĕjarah Mĕlayu p. xxv, After the large infiltration of the Buginese into the Straits of Malacca..they brought a copy of this text with them to the Riau Archipelago. 1981 Pacific Affairs LIV. 666 Javanese, Baweanese, Sundanese, Buginese. |