Abstract Hikayat Raja Babi is an old Malay manuscript written in 1775 by a Semarang merchant named Usup bin Abdul Kadir while sailing to Palembang. It was handwritten in Jawi script and is in the collections Received: Peroleh: 12/7/2023 Revised: Semakan 18/9/2023 Accepted: Terima: 26/9/2023 Published online: Terbit dalam talian: 31/10/2023 THE MALAY TALE OF THE PIG KING (2015): AN ADAPTATION OF HIKAYAT RAJA BABI (1775) (The Malay Tale of the Pig King [2015]: Sebuah Adaptasi daripada Hikayat Raja Babi [1775]) Nur Yuhanis Mohd Nasir 1 yuhanis83@um.edu.my Eizah Mat Hussain 2 eizah@um.edu.my Nurhamizah Hashim 3 aaee@um.edu.my Abdul Mutalib Embong 4 mutalib_embong@umt.edu.my Academy of Malay Studies, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 1, 2 & 3 Centre for Foundation and Continuing Education, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, 21030 Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia. 4 Corresponding author (Pengarang koresponden): 1 To cite this article (Rujukan makalah ini): Nur Yuhanis Mohd Nasir, Eizah Mat Hussain, Nurhamizah Hashim & Abdul Mutalib Embong. (2023). The Malay tale of the pig king (2015): An adaptation of Hikayat raja babi (1775). Malay Literature, 36(2), 189‒208. https:// doi.org/10.37052/ml36(2)no2 189 © Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka. 2023. This work is licensed under the term of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) ISSN: 0128-2670 e-ISSN: 2682-8057