Re:Why standard Indonesian is not spoken throughout Indonesia
by curtis on Wednesday July 04, 2018 @12:35PM
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> Claims about the relative simplicity or complexity of different languages are rarely grounded in actual linguistic evidence.
I don't think that's justified in the case of Bahasa Indonesia, or indeed any language which is more widely used as a second language than as a first. And it's pretty much a dialect of Malay, which also has a long history as a second language used for trade.
I don't think that's justified in the case of Bahasa Indonesia, or indeed any language which is more widely used as a second language than as a first. And it's pretty much a dialect of Malay, which also has a long history as a second language used for trade.