Talk:Pontianak

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I took the right sided table data from the Indonesian version. My Indon is a bit dodgy so I have no idea whether my translations are correct. Someone should correct it. Also, the emblem is missing. I don't know how to upload an image, so just pull it over from the Indonesian version. Xess 22:42, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Name

Is it just coincidence the city's name means "vampire" in Indonesian/Malay, or is it something else? John Riemann Soong 21:15, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

• It is true that the name means "vampire" in Malay. In Indonesian, the pontianak vampire is commonly called "kuntilanak". The city is named after the vampire because according to the legend, there were so many pontianak vampires in the area.

The name comes from the vampire like pontianak, but according to the locals it is due to the fact that the first ruler/founder of Pontianak (Syarif Abdul Rahman Al-kadri of Saudi Arabia) fought the Kuntilanak to save the people. I think it might just be local lore, but this information is from a decendant of the original sultan.

Anthem

I have deleted the anthem part since it is not the anthem of the city and the city does not have anthem. "Cik Cik Periuk" is just a traditional folk song.

I Disagree with the Removal of Chinese Pronounciation

I disagree with the removal of the Chinese pronounciation based on the reason "It is not a city in China". Georgetown is in Malaysia and despite that its article includes the pronounciations in both Malay and Chinese. Because both ethnic groups are the most influencial. I believe this is also the case in this article. Please excuse my poor English as I'm not a native English speaker.

I still see no reason why it should not be included. The Indonesian wikipedia itself does have a reference to the pronounciation.

Pontianak Malay

http://www.ling.hawaii.edu/ldtc/languages/pontianak_malay/

Rajmaan (talk) 02:31, 14 July 2014 (UTC)

Requested move 15 March 2020

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The result of the move request was: moved -- JHunterJ (talk) 22:05, 25 March 2020 (UTC)

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• Pontianak, West Kalimantan → Pontianak
• Pontianak → Pontianak (disambiguation)

– Unnecessary disambiguation OktaRama2010 (talk) 20:00, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

• The city is not necessarily the primary topic.[1] I will recreate a dab page at Pontianak. Station1 (talk) 20:21, 14 March 2020 (UTC)

This is a contested technical request. GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 01:13, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

• Support. Good work on the restored disambiguation page, but the location does seem primary by pageviews. Shhhnotsoloud (talk) 14:34, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

  Are you sure? To me, it looks like Pontianak (folklore) gets more views. Station1 (talk) 17:39, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

• I feel like this is a case of Java vs Java (programming language) - the folklore is interesting to english-language readers moreso than the city (though to be fair, the language comes from the island in that case, in this case the city comes from the ghost). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Juxlos (talk • contribs) 00:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

• Support I would say that a medium-sized city supersedes a folklore creature in priority. Juxlos (talk) 00:19, 16 March 2020 (UTC)

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The cannon is actually made from aracea palm tree.

The bamboo cannon mentioned is actually made from palm trees. Palm tree cannons are bigger than the bamboo cannon, so that the sound they produce.

Most of the times, they use aracea palm tree. Muhammad Erril (talk) 05:56, 24 October 2022 (UTC)