Of a Quiet Valley

MOST of the people in Sumenep at the eastern end Madura call their kampung Songenneb. Kitab Pararaton written over the period 1475-1485 refers to the village as Sungenep. J. L. Brandes, a Dutch researcher who translated Pararaton, wrote that Songenneb is the name of the village in the tongue of the Madurese.

The Madurese tongue pronounces the vowel “u” as “o.” Songenneb changed to Sumenep when the Dutch came to Madura in 1705. Dutch lite

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