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Gaul Indonesian or Colloquial Indonesian is the informal register of the Indonesian language that emerged in the 1980s and continues to evolve to this day. According to the Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language (KBBI), colloquial language is defined as 'a non-formal dialect of Indonesian used by certain communities for socialization'.
Indonesian slang vernacular (Indonesian: bahasa gaul, Betawi: basa gaul), or Jakarta colloquial speech (Indonesian: bahasa informal, bahasa sehari-hari) is a term that subsumes various urban vernacular and non-standard styles of expression used throughout Indonesia that are not necessarily mutually intelligible.
The following is a partial list of English words of Indonesian origin.The loanwords in this list may be borrowed or derived, either directly or indirectly, from the Indonesian language.
The former colonial power, the Netherlands, left an extensive vocabulary.These Dutch loanwords, and loanwords from other European languages which came via Dutch, cover all aspects of life.
Some languages, like Buginese (five million speakers) and Makassarese (two million speakers), are widely distributed and vigorously used. Many of the languages with much smaller numbers of speakers are also still vigorously spoken, but some languages are almost extinct, because language use of the ethnic population has shifted to the dominant regional language, e.g. in the case of Ponosakan ...
The Agency for Language Development and Cultivation (Indonesian: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa), formerly the Language and Book Development Agency (Badan Pengembangan Bahasa dan Perbukuan) and the Language Centre (Pusat Bahasa), is the institution responsible for standardising and regulating the Indonesian language as well as maintaining the indigenous languages of Indonesia.
In Indonesia, "Indonesian Malay" usually refers to the vernacular varieties of Malay spoken by the Malay peoples of Indonesia, that is, to Malay as a regional language in Sumatra, though it is rarely used. [21] Bahasa Malaysia and Bahasa Melayu are used interchangeably in reference to Malay in Malaysia.
Huan-a (Chinese: 番仔; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: hoan-á) is a Hokkien-language term used by Hokkien speakers in multiple countries, namely mainland China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, etc.