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This paper discusses descriptively the patterns of use of wh question in Penang Malay dialect. The data are primary data that were accumulated from native speakers of the Malay Penang dialect. The villages are identified based on the GIS geographical grid drawn on the map based on a scale of 1:240. The drawn grids are totaled to 23 grid boxes. Each grid box is represented by a village. A total of ten respondents from each village were identified based on the criteria of NORMs. Respondents who speak mainly Penang Malay dialect were interviewed. Our analysis found that the wh questions of this dialect consists of apa, siapa, bila, berapa, pasai apa, awat, macam mana, lagu mana dan mana.. All the wh questions display a similar property where they can be located at all positions in a sentence:, the initial, medial and final position. This finding gives further support against the claim that wh words in wh-questions in Malay occur mainly in the initial position of the sentence
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