Indonesian Translation

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About Indonesian
Indonesian, an Austronesian language, is a standardized form of Malay and is spoken throughout Indonesia. About 30 million people speak Indonesian as their first language and a further 140 million speak it as a second language. Indonesia is a linguistically diverse region where the Indonesian language acts as a lingua franca, even though there are more native speakers of Javanese - about 75 million.
In the 1930s, as part of the independence movement, the Indonesian language was standardized and the term Bahasa Indonesia was adopted as the name of the language.

Written Indonesian
During the time Indonesia was a Dutch colony, the Latin alphabet was introduced to write Indonesian and a number of Dutch spellings were used. This alphabet was called ejaan lama (Old Script) in Indonesian.
In 1947 the spelling of oe was changed to u. Then in 1972 a set of official changes to the Indonesian spelling system were introduced by former president Soeharto. The major changes included changing ch to kh, dj to j, j to y, nj to ny, sj to sy, and tj to c.
In Muslim communities in Indonesia the Jawi alphabet, a version of the Arabic alphabet, is sometimes used to write Indondesian.

Indonesian alphabet (Alfabet bahasa Indonesia)

Indonesian pronunciation (Cara Pengucapan)

Notes

• There are four digraphs: ng (eng), ny (nye), kh (kha) and sy (sya). The final two only appear in words of Arabic origin.
• The vowels e and o are pronounced [ɛ] and [ɔ] in closed final syllables.
• ai and au are pronounced [aɪ̯] and [aʊ̯] in final position and as separated vowels, [a.i] and [a.u], elsewhere.
• The letters q, v, x, and z are used in loanwords from Europe and India.

Did You Know?
English has borrowed a number of words from Malay (Indonesian).
amok---from Malay amuk ‘attacking furiously’
bamboo---probably from Malay samambu
batik---from Malay mbatik ‘writing, drawing’
gecko---from Malay gekoq, possibly imitative of the noise made by the lizard
gingham---rendering of a Malay word ginggang ‘striped’
orangutan from Malay orang utan, lit. ‘man of the woods’, from orang ‘man’+ utan, hutan ‘forest, wild’
rattan---from Malay rotan
sago---from Malay sagu, the name of the palm tree from which it is obtained
sarong---from Malay sarung ‘sheath, covering’

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