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International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences

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ISSN: 2222-6990

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the morphological aspects in the Poems of Trade (MSS 3160). The Poems (MSS 3160) is a Malay manuscript written in Jawi and can be categorized into religious syair groups. Structural approaches are used to analyze descriptive morphological aspects that include aspects of the words, word classes and word structures. The findings reveal that there are many uses of prefix requisites, appropriations, assignments, personal pronouns, reinforcement words and so on. This script is also infused with the use of Arabic terms and the words of zikir. Library studies are used as a reference and guide to further clarify evidence and arguments. This article is very important because it adds the number of manuscripts that have been translated in the poetic form. This study leads to the discovery of new findings and thus benefits the future generations. The results reveal that the authorship in the poem of the Poems (MSS 3160) had a high level of knowledge, in terms of literary and linguistic aspects.