This study aims to identify and examine the role of the community’s local wisdom in environmental conservation or conservation efforts and to understand the history, values and behavior of local wisdom in Bangka Belitung. The study uses semi-structured interviews and descriptive analysis. The results show that local wisdom consists of three moral values: humans are not the center of nature; protecting the environment is a local job; and a holistic way of thinking. The Malay community’s efforts in environmental conservation in Bangka Belitung are to use local wisdom by saving the environment from unused tin mines with the term origin or impact. The impact of local wisdom on environmental conservation is that environmental sustainability will be maintained by no longer converting forest functions into mining land. The local wisdom of the Malay community on Belitung Island include the tradition of conserving plants or what is commonly referred to as kelekak and the pemalian forest. In the beginning, kelekak was an expanse of wilderness. Then, the community cut down the trees that grew in the wilderness to be used as huma and then abandoned or commonly referred to as bebak. Huma is one of the categories of the forbidden forest because of the influence of supernatural things that can prevent the unrestricted use of the forest. This local wisdom is a way for the community to conserve the environment.

This paper analyses the split intransitivity by introducing data from Japanese and Mongolian. The finding reveals that Japanese split intransitivity links to postposition selection, i.e. unergative motion verbs describe processes with a durative motion event and thus are likely to yield directional postpositions or a route with an endpoint. Unaccusative verbs, on the other hand, indicate a punctual motion event and therefore often occur with locative postpositions. Intransitives further split in lexicalisation, i.e. Japanese unergative verbs tend to convey the MANNER of motion while unaccusative verbs appear to favour the PATH of motion. Mongolian seems to render the path in the main verb, leaving manner to be encoded in an optional constituent, i.e. a converbal construction. The combination of converbal construction is restricted to [non-scale change morphemes + totally closed-scale change morphemes] and [non-scale change morphemes + lower closed-scale morphemes]. Essentially, unergative verbs can be non-scale change morpheme or totally open-scale morpheme, contributing to the manner of motion. Unaccusative verbs can be totally closed-scale, or upper closed-scale, or lower closed-scale morpheme, denoting the path of motion.