Pahang adalah negeri yang paling banyak loghat. Tiap-tiap daerah dalam negeri Pahang, loghat percakapannya berlainan. Malah ada juga kampung dalam daerah yang sama mempunyai loghat yang lain. Mungkin agaknya kerana asal usul penduduk awal kampung itu. Bagi mereka yang berasal dari Raub, kepelbagaian loghat adalah satu perkara yang amat biasa. Diantara orang Dong dengan orang Gali, loghat mereka pun sudah berbeza. Padahal Dong dengan Gali hanya 3 kilometer saja jarak diantara satu sama lain.
Berbagai loghat lagi apabila Dong dan Gali jadi Kuala dan Ulu yakni Kuala Dong dan Kuala Gali serta Ulu Dong dan Ulu Gali. Loghat itu bertambah unik bila Sega, Atuk, Batu Talam dan Batu Malim diambil kira. Itu pun belum lagi diambil kira orang dari keturunan Rao (Rawa), Kampar, Minangkabau dan lain-lain.
"Dilambong tak pocah, terompeh endo jamin", itu lah teriakan sipenjual pinggan mangkok di Pekan Rabu Dong zaman dulu-dulu. Memang si mamat itu lambong pinggan mangkuk tu keatas. Memang lah tak pecah. Mana ada pinggan mangkuk pecah kalau hanya dilambong. Kalau terhempas keatas tanah, tidak dijamin! Maksudnya pecah la tu!
Orang Minangkabau bila ditanya apa kerja dia, ada yang jawab "kerja guyang kaki". Jangan salah faham. Maksudnya dia si tukang jahit.
Orang Rao yang di zaman dulu menjadi askar upahan memang tergulung dalam kaum yang keras hati, cekal dan berani. Kalau orang Rao kata "inda ku podah". Jangan lah dipujuk lagi. Sampai mati pun dia dah tak nak! Tapi kalau setakat dia cakap "tak ku bahawa" atau "tak terliur", masih boleh lagi dipujuk.
Kata-kata loghat Raub ini lah yang akan diterima oleh UMNO kalau masih lagi tidak mahu berubah. Rasuah sudah menjadi-jadi. Jawatan dalam parti telah dijadikan harta mak bapak datuk nenek mereka punya. Tidak boleh dipertandingkan. Ketua tidak boleh dilawan. Incumbent tidak boleh dilawan. Orang yang cerdik pandai ditolak jauh-jauh. Pada mereka UMNO itu mesti dipegang oleh orang-orang dan kuncu-kuncu mereka sahaja. Kalau boleh mereka nak kata UMNO tu bapak aku punya!
Dilambong UMNO memang tak pocah, terompeh ke tanah endo jamin!
Orang UMNO tak payah buat kerja lain. Guyang kaki je lah! Satu hari nanti orang akan kata pada UMNO..."Inda ku podah!...Tak aku bahawa!...Tak aku terliur!..
Itu jam baru padan muka!
Kupasan yang menarik. Teringat sewaktuzaman berada di pulau tawar. sememangnya unik bahasa pahang ini. harapannya semoga umno dan para ahli tak lah seunik bahasa pahang. walaupun berlainan negeri dan loghat harap harap pahamlah kehendak akar umbi.
ReplyDeleteorang pekan akan cakap...poh palehh..awok. makna nya, hebat awak punya kupasan. unfortunately brother, this is what is happening to UMNO. its self inflicted. tok nenek punya harta benda.
ReplyDeletebest regards/ariff
Salam Dato,
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting entry (not the political bit but the Rawa bit)
I came across an article yang menerangkan mengapa orang Rawa ini sangat dibenci oleh ethnik2 lain.Sebab mereka monopoli perdagangan dan amat berjaya.So I'm curious to that bit about them being askar upahan.Askar upahan atau pedagang? Tapi mereka ni superbeings.Semua dia boleh buat: berperang pun handal, berniaga pun terror dan ahli agama pun dia juga.
Article yang saya baca tu mengatakan punyalah bencinya ethnik lain terhadap orang Rawa ini sehingga bila mereka kalah dalam satu peperangan, sejarah mereka pun dilenyapkan.Itu sebab sukar sangat kita nak dapat bahan sejarah Rawa ini.
Wallahualam.
Dear Faridah,
ReplyDeleteOrang Rao atau disebut "raawo" ramai di Raub & di Gopeng Perak. Zaman dulu orang2 Rao yang di Raub itu diupah oleh Tengku Kudin Selangor untuk menjadi askar berperang di Selangor. Ada juga cerita yang musuh Tengku Kudin pun mengupah orang Rao juga. Apabila askar Rao itu bertemu mereka enggan berperang sesama Rao. Agaknya itu lah sebab Selangor jadi aman!
Orang Rao yg saya kenal memanglah handal2 belaka. Mereka adalah juga orang alim ugama, guru silat dan juga pawang.
Ada juga orang Rao yg "jahat" dlm erti kata mereka itu adalah penentang British seperti Tok Bahaman.
Wallahualam.
p/s Check with www.jaro.com.my
Bagi yang berminat on the topic, this might help:
ReplyDeleteThe Rawa War of 1848
Thomas Braddell in his note on the history of Negeri Sembilan enclosed
with SS Despatch to the CO dated 29th December 1874, reveals the
involvement of the Rawa (Rao) and Mandailing in the Rawa War of 1848. The
latter were in Sungai Ujong (Seremban today) following the wake of the
Padri War (1816-1833).
" The Rawa disturbances in 1848 are of sufficient importance to justify a
few words giving an account of another and a most serious misfortune to
the Sungai Ujong mine.
" The Rawa are an adventurous people with a strong turn for trade, living
to the north east of the Pagarooyong (Menangkabowe) district, in the
middle of Sumatra. They have long been in the habit of trading to the
Peninsula, and have established Colonies in several places, the most
important of which was at Pahang, where they almost monopolized the trade.
The superiority of these people over the ordinary Malay give rise to
jealousies which require them to be on their guard, and to combine for
mutual protection, so that when any of the tribe are injured the rest are
bound to assist in protecting them, a feature in their character which
adds to the dislike of them entertained by the Malays; but being like the
Chinese, good colonists, they are allowed to remain in the Malay
countries.
" Causes of. - A number of the tribe had settled in Sungei Ujong, and were
getting the chief portion of the local trade in their hands where three of
them were put to death by the Klana for an alleged offence. The justice of
the execution was denied by the trio, and they determined to exact
vengeance. Assistance was sent for to Pahang, their head quarters, and
open war was declared. This was said to have been the pretext for the war,
but the truth probably was, that the many differences and jealousies
between the two races had brought matters to such a state that it required
very little to bring on a war.
" Result of. - The Rawa proved their individual superiority over the
Malays during the war. But being few in numbers and distant from their
resources they were at last obliged to retire; and they have not since
been allowed to return to the country. The Rawas who are now in Sungei
Ujong are said to be Tamoosai Rawas, and do not mix with the others, Rawa
Ulu (or up country Rawas); in fact the Tamoosais sided with the Klana."
Here in this passage we have the first mention of the presence of the
"Tamoosai" in the Peninsula in the second quarter of the 19th century.
There were probably two groups of people from Rao - the Mandailings and
the Rao. Rao is the frontier country between Minangkabau and Mandailing.
The Rao or "orang Rawa" as they are known in the Peninsula and in East
Sumatra. The "Tamoosai Rawas" were Rawa from Tambusai, while Rawa Ulu (or
up country Rawas) were probably Mandailing, whose homeland was to the
north of Rao. Of course, this does not discount the Tambusai's presence, a
distinct group in themselves.
The Mandailing involvement in the "Sungei Ujong" affair was confirmed by
J.C. Pasqual who wrote about the episode in 1930s based on an account from
"Raja Allang ibni Raja Brayun, who was a Forest ranger of the Ulu Langat
district in the late 'eighties (1880's)". He implied that the Mandailings
were not on the side of Dato' Klana but against him.
" At this time Raja Brayun, a Mendeleng from Sumatra, invaded Sungei Ujong
and attacked Datoh Klana Sendeng, because a friend of Raja Brayun was
murdered and Datoh Klana Sendeng refused to pay the blood money of $400
according to 'adat' Malayu. On the side of Raja Brayun there was Panglima
Garang and Panglima Si Gara, both 'invulnerable' and fierce warriors,
besides 500 fighting men. But he was defeated although he had bribed one
of Datoh Klana Sendeng's men with $3,000 to burn the granaries and blow up
a powder magazine. Raja Brayun then retired to Recko, a village on the
Langat river a short distance upstream from Kajang, and invited Raja
Abdulsamad to live with him. He built a stockade at Recko and had a large
force of fighting men who lived by robbery and raiding Sakais to sell them
into slavery."
Mandailings as well as Rawas raided Orang Asli and sold them into slavery.
This is not to say that historically all Mandailings and Rawas were a
party to this. Other Mandailings were also noted in British records as
having employed Orang Asli.
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A book _Raja Bilah and the Mandailings in Perak, 1875-1911_ by
Abdur-Razzaq Lubis & Khoo Salma Nasution might have some information too.