Balinese
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- noun
- /ˌbɑːlɪˈniːz/
- Ascher explains how visualizing their calendar as a tika enables the Balinese to solve, in their heads, complicated questions about the occurrence of specific calendar days.
- many Balinese
Examples
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Often the young find their identity as Balinese framed by the mirror that tourism holds up to them.
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The Balinese are also quite friendly and willing to share with everyone there, including occasional outsiders.
Academic text (2007) -
However, when one questions the Balinese about their religious practices, something odd (from our perspective) is noted.
Academic text (1995) -
By then, a particular representation of the Balinese had been established by ethnologists, administrators, and tourists.
Academic text (2018) -
The Balinese and the Sasak of Lombok lived west of Wallace's line, and Wallace considered these groups Malays.
Academic text (2018) -
While many Balinese have benefited from the small economies that spring up in areas popular with tourists, in many respects the tourism industry has pushed local Balinese out, as "the local people only appear to be involved in the lower and middle strata of economic opportunities and seem to be excluded from the upper levels where decisions are taken" (Hitchcock and Putra 52).
Academic text (2014) -
Medical doctor Julius Jacobs agreed with this categorization of the Balinese based on his observations of women when he was in Bali administering smallpox vaccinations in the 1880s.
Academic text (2018) -
The discomfort felt in such an action is not shame in the traditional sense, but something more akin to what Geertz (1973:402) calls "stage fright" among the Balinese; a sense that, like the actor fumbling his or her lines, the person will become the object of conscious attention by those around.
Academic text (2009) -
From the tens of thousands of measurements that he took, Kleiweg identified 27 bodily dimensions and indices, like shoulder width, in which the Bali-Aga and Balinese differed to a statistically significant degree.
Academic text (2018) -
While other classes are taught in the Bahasa Indonesian language, religion is taught in Balinese.
Synonyms
A language that people on the island of Bali in Indonesia speak
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Balinese comes from the island name Bali plus the ending -ese, which means 'from' or 'belonging to' a place, like in Chinese. So Balinese names the language spoken by the people of Bali.