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Goodbye, advice

Good news, bahambauan

Good news urges

Bad news scatters
It means that in holding an event or banquet, it is

recommended to invite people to come. This means people will not
just come uninvited. And vice versa if you hear bad news, for

example about death or illness, everyone is obliged to come visit.
L. Pantun

The most important of the literary forms in adat is "pantun".

It appears very much both in kaba, speech etc. With a rhyme a
speech will be beautiful and alive, a kaba will feel more flowery if

it is decorated with a rhyme.
According to etymology, the poem comes from pa - tuntun

which means guide. Changes such as the above are very common
in the Minang language as in the following words:

Men become men.

Grass becomes grass
According to AA Navis:

Pantun consists of several lines in an even number

of two, four, six to twelve lines. Each line consists of four
words with the same ending rhythm. Half of the starting