or okkot is an idiom typical to people coming from
South Sulawesi
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, especially from ethnic
Makassar
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and
Bugis
The Bugis people, also known as Buginese, are an Austronesian ethnic groupthe most numerous of the three major linguistic and ethnic groups of South Sulawesi (the others being Makassarese and Torajan), in the south-western province of Sula ...
. It is characterized by unintentionally changing some part of a word in
Indonesian
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* Indonesians, citizens of Indonesia
** Native Indonesians, diverse groups of local inhabitants of the archipelago
** Indonesian ...
during a conversation.
Okkot Blogspot (Indonesian)
Etymology
Okkot(s) is derived from the word ''okko in Makassar language which literally means "trespassing a dividing line". This term was first introduced in traditional games played by children in South Sulawesi.
Characteristics
There are various forms of okkots, some of the most generally occurred are removing the letter "g" in a word that ended with "g" and adding "g" in a word that ended with "n".
Examples:
See also
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Indonesian slang
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