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    This document discusses the history and current status of the Indonesian language. It begins by explaining that Indonesian was formerly known as Malay and is now spoken by over 200 million people in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. It then questions the commonly cited figure that Indonesian has only 23 million native speakers, arguing this is an underestimate. The document concludes by recommending some dictionaries and grammars for learning Indonesian and noting that the language can be studied online through the University of Hawaii.

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    This document discusses the history and current status of the Indonesian language. It begins by explaining that Indonesian was formerly known as Malay and is now spoken by over 200 million people in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei. It then questions the commonly cited figure that Indonesian has only 23 million native speakers, arguing this is an underestimate. The document concludes by recommending some dictionaries and grammars for learning Indonesian and noting that the language can be studied online through the University of Hawaii.

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    INDONESIAN-ONLINE

    Learn Bahasa Indonesia now


    W H AT IS INDONESIAN? —
    THE H IST ORY OF T H E
    INDONESIA N LANGUAGE
    Indonesian is a 20 thcentury name for Malay.
    Depending on how you define a language and how
    you count its number of speakers, today Malay-
    Indonesian ranks around sixth or seventh in size
    among the world’ s languages. W ith dialect
    variations it is spoken by more than 200 million
    people in the modern states of Indonesia,
    Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. It is also an
    important vernacular in the southern provinces
    of Thailand, in East Timor and among the
    Malay
    people of A ustralia’ s C ocos K eeling Islands in
    the Indian Ocean. It is understood in parts of the
    Sulu area of the southern Philippines and traces
    of it are to be found among people of Malay
    descent in Sri Lanka, South Africa and other
    places.
    H OW
    MANY
    P EOP L E
    SP EAK
    INDONESIAN?
    According to Ethnologue, Indonesian is a
    small language. It is alleged that only
    23
    million Indonesians speak bahasa Indonesia
    natively whereas Malaysian is said to have
    39 million native speakers. Wikipedia, which
    relies on the data provided by Ethnologue,
    cautions us that “ the definition of a
    single
    language is to some extent arbitrary”. For this
    reason, “ some mutually intelligible
    idioms with separate national standards
    or self-
    identification have been l isted
    together, including Hindi- Urdu; [ and]
    Indonesian and
    Malay”.
    INDONESIAN NAT IV E SP EAK ERS
    — MY T H AND REAL IT Y
    ABSTRACT:

    The number of native speakers of the Indonesian language is general ly


    underest imated. An ex tr em e case is E t h no l o gu e which u n ti l r e c e n t l y maint ai ned
    that the Indonesian language has 23 m i l l i o n native speakers.
    In Indonesian, the Indonesian language is
    INDONESIAN— called bahasa Indonesia. It is essentially the

    AN same
    language as M alay ( Bahasa M elayu) or
    M alaysian ( Bahasa M alaysia). Bahasa
    AUSTRONESIAN Indonesia is the
    national language of Indonesia and Bahasa
    LANGUAGE Malaysia is the national language of Malaysia
    and Brunei, and one of four national languages
    of Singapore.
    DICT IONARIES AND GRAMMARS
    F OR L EARNERS OF
    INDONESIAN
    By far the best Indonesian- English d i c t i o n a r y is A C o m p r e h e n s i v e Indonesian-
    English D i c t i o n a r y : 2 nd E d i t i o n by A l an M. Stevens & A. Schmidgall-
    Tellings ( Editors). H o w e v e r , it is qui te expensive. A cheaper option, but
    s t i l l good, is
    Kamus Indonesia- Inggris: An Indonesian- English D i c t i o n a r y by Hassan
    Shadily. There is also an English- Indonesuian d i c t i o n a r y from the same
    author. B o t h are very good. Then there is the equal ly good Indonesian- English
    The Le ar ne r’ s
    D i c t i o n a r y of Today’ s Indonesian by G eo r ge Quinn. These are the only ones
    that we can rec ommend at the moment.
    DID Y OU
    KouNOW ?
    can learn Indonesian online at the
    O u t r e a c h C o l l e g e of the U n i v e r s i t y of
    H a w a i i at M a n o a and get u n i v e r s i t y
    credits? C o n t a c t the Indonesian
    Language
    Program.
    ADDRESS
    1060 K AH UL UI
    ST .
    H ONOL UL U,
    H AW AI'I 96825 (USA)
    WA/SMS/
    P H : + 1.808.365.7043
    F OR MORE DEAT IL S V ISIT OUR WWW.INDONESIAN-ONLINE.COM
    W EBSIT E-

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