I'm proud to : kecek Qelate and so should you!

Kelantanese dialect is one of unique dialect ~ one of its kind dialect which is not very easily mastered by others. As both my parents were Kelantanese, my siblings and I were exposed to this dialects since the first day that we were born.

*map of Kelantan*→ source: travel malaysia guide

When we were small, we used to live all over Malaysia → KL (1990-1993), Selangor (1994), Penang (1995-1997), Kedah (1986) and etc; following to where abah was assigned to be working for his company . Abah and arwah ma have clearly stated one rule to us that is :- |"keno kecek Qelate di rumoh!"|.


Abah and arwah ma are well aware of the fact that kids are easily influenced by others and linguistic genius thus, they have set the rule to ensure that we can still able to converse in Kelantanese dialect no matter where we go and live. The reason why they apply this rule is to ensure that bahasa Qelate tak hilang di dunia ceewah. Abah memang menyampah sangat2 la kalau orang Qelate tak reti cakap Qelate. jadi indirectly kami adik beradik pun jadi menyampah jugak ekekeke.


Teringat lagi masa zaman sekolah dulu, my friend and I pulau kan seorang budak baru yang datang sekolah sebab konon2 tak reti cakap Qelate walaupun parents dia orang Qelate...hohoho, kesian kat budak tu. Lepas seminggu, terus budak tu dah boleh cakap bahasa Qelate ekekeke.


It turns out that this rule is wise enough because we can easily 'set' our tongue to converse in bahasa Melayu standard @ bahasa utara @ bahasa qelate according to occasion and to whom we are talking to. So, when we are with our friends, we will use bahasa Melayu standard and when we are home with our family; we will switched our tongue to converse in Kelantanese dialect.


Usually bila orang Qelate bumped into each other at a place outside of Kelantan, automatically we will converse in Kelantanese dialects with each other. Bukan nak bersifat assabiyah ke apa, tapi I rasa it applies to bahasa2 bagi negeri lain gak. Sama jugak kalau orang Sarawak, orang Penang, orang Perak, orang Sabah, orang Terengganu, orang kedah dan yang lain2 bila jumpa each other kan?.


Tapi kan yang buat I musykil ialah macamana boleh wujud kejadian di mana orang Qelate tak reti cakap Qelate?. Serius I musykil. I sendiri pernah bersekolah di luar dari negeri Qelate for about 10 years and in fact stay di luar dari Malaysia for this past 3 years; tapi campak lah I kat mana pun... I tetap boleh cakap Qelate bila jumpa 'geng'.


I tak tahu lah orang lain macamana, tapi bagi hubby & I (both of us are Kelantanese)....kami memang rasa agak annoying kalau orang Qelate tak nak cakap Qelate sesama orang Qelate huhu. Tapi ni cuma pendapat peribadi I saja, jangan ada yang kecik hati pulak. Macam ada orang tak suka bila ada orang guna bahasa rojak untuk borak or tulis blog *macam I yang suka campur malay + english dalam entry I ngeeeee*. So, I guess I'm being a normal person that have my own likes and dislikes things.


What about you?.
• Ada tak orang Qelate lain yang sependapat dengan I dalam hal kecek Qelate ni? ataupun cuma I sorang je yang yang sibuk2 nak rasa annoying cam nih? ngeeeee
• Kalau yang orang dari ngeri lain (yang ada dialect sendiri e.g utara, sabah, sarawak etc) macamana pulak?. Ada rasa menyampah tak bila orang senegeri tiba2 cakap dengan kita guna bahasa "KL"?.



Pssssstttt : I punya semangat kecek Qelate ni sampai komen kat blog orang Qelate lain pun I gi tulis dalam bahasa Qelate ehehe.