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  2. List of Chinese loanwords in Indonesian - Wikipedia

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    Indonesian Word Indonesian Meaning Chinese Character (Traditional) Chinese Character Chinese Variant Chinese Transliteration Chinese Meaning Note Ref acik, aci: older women, such as older sister, aunt 阿姊: 阿姊: Hakka: â-chí, â-chè, â-che elder sister Min Nan: a-chí, a-ché akeo: son 阿哥: 阿哥: Min Nan: a-ko elder brother amah

  3. List of loanwords in Chinese - Wikipedia

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    A rarer occurrence is the blending of the Latin alphabet with Chinese characters, as in "卡拉OK" ("karaoke"), “T恤” ("T-shirt"), "IP卡" ("internet protocol card"). [3] In some instances, the loanwords exists side by side with neologisms that translate the meaning of the concept into existing Chinese morphemes.

  4. Yi script - Wikipedia

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    Although similar to Chinese in function, the glyphs are independent in form, with little to suggest that they are directly related. However, there are some borrowings from Chinese, such as the characters for numbers used in some Yi script traditions. Languages written with the classical script included Nuosu, Nisu, Wusa Nasu, and Mantsi. It was ...

  5. Indonesian language - Wikipedia

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    Kedukan Bukit Inscription, written in Pallava script, is the oldest surviving specimen of the Old Malay language. Standard Indonesian is a standard language of "Riau Malay", [5] [6] which despite its common name is not based on the vernacular Malay dialects of the Riau Islands, but rather represents a form of Classical Malay as used in the 19th ...

  6. Kawi script - Wikipedia

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    Also called the Prae-Nagari in Dutch publications after the classic work of F.D.K. Bosch on early Indonesian scripts, the early-Nagari form of script was primarily used in the Kawi script form to write southeast Asian Sanskrit and Old Javanese language in central and eastern Java.

  7. Chinese characters - Wikipedia

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    Chinese characters "Chinese character" written in traditional (left) and simplified (right) forms Script type Logographic Time period c. 13th century BCE – present Direction Left-to-right Top-to-bottom, columns right-to-left Languages Chinese Japanese Korean Vietnamese Zhuang (among others) Related scripts Parent systems (Proto-writing) Chinese characters Child systems Bopomofo Jurchen ...

  8. Transliteration of Chinese - Wikipedia

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    官話字母; Guānhuà zìmǔ, developed by Wang Zhao (1859–1933), was the first alphabetic writing system for Chinese developed by a Chinese person. This system was modeled on Japanese katakana, which he learned during a two-year stay in Japan, and consisted of letters that were based on components of Chinese characters.

  9. List of loanwords in Indonesian - Wikipedia

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    Indonesian word Indonesian meaning Hebrew word Hebrew Transliteration Hebrew meaning Note Ref bethel 1. holy place, 2. a Christian denomination: בֵּית אֵל: beth.el house of God usually loan rendered as bait Allah (bait is a loanword from the cognate word بَيْت (bayt) in Arabic). haleluya alleluia, hallelujah ...