learn Bidayuh

Did you know that in Bidayuh, there are no words for “blue” and “green”?

I guess these colours of nature are so much in abundance and normal to them that it never occurred to even have a term for the 2 colours. So everything else that is foreign does.

I’m also half-Bidayuh and it would be a waste to not know the language when my mother speaks it fluently. It’s a beautiful language and surely something that’s not receiving enough appreciation by youngsters. Only a small percentage of Malaysians today speak Bidayuh.