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4491 results for bahasa indonesia

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  • The Origins and Development of Bahasa Indonesia

  • R. Nugroho
  • Journal:
    PMLA / Publications of the Modern Language Association of America / Volume 72 / Issue 2 / April 1957
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 December 2020, pp. 23-28
    Print publication:
    April 1957

  • First of all I should like to express my deepest appreciation for your invitation to participate in the discussions at this Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association. It is indeed a great honor you have extended to my country in inviting me to speak to such a distinguished gathering. It is, however, an honor which I have accepted with some hesitancy. As a layman in the field of linguistics I know that I am not the right person to address an association of scholars. Moreover, my desire to make a somewhat valuable contribution to these discussions has been greatly handicapped by the lack of source material and reference books which I wished to consult but which are not presently available in Washington.

  • 11 - Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Melayu: convergence and divergence of the official languages in contemporary Southeast Asia

  • from Part II - Major other languages in Asia, their international status and impact on education
  • Edited by Gerhard Leitner, Freie Universität Berlin, Azirah Hashim, Hans-Georg Wolf, Universität Potsdam, Germany
  • Book:
    Communicating with Asia
    Published online:
    05 January 2016
    Print publication:
    11 January 2016, pp 170-187

  • Summary

    Abstract

    This chapter outlines the relationship between Bahasa Indonesia and Malay (Bahasa Melayu), the official languages of the modern states of Indonesia and Malaysia. We trace the historical development of these two varieties of Malay from their classical source, Malay, before the advent of government by the colonial powers, and focus our discussion on factors resulting in the divergence that is visible today. We also discuss efforts to standardize the two postindependence languages, including the language policies adopted by the major Malay-speaking countries in the region. The chapter analyzes the differences between Bahasa Indonesia and Malay in terms of vocabulary and grammatical structure and advances certain hypotheses for some of the major remaining differences. Given the geopolitical proximity of Brunei and Singapore we cannot but include what happens to Malay there.

  • 3 - National Language and Nation-Building: The Case of Bahasa Indonesia

  • Book:
    Language, Nation and Development in Southeast Asia
    Published by:
    ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
    Published online:
    21 October 2015
    Print publication:
    11 December 2007, pp 39-50

  • Summary

    INTRODUCTION

    The national language of Indonesia is originally called Malay, which is a minority language in the Indonesian archipelago. Why was this minority language eventually chosen as the national language of Indonesia? This chapter deals with the origin of the Indonesian national language and its development from 1928 to the Reformasi (Reform) period. It also examines Indonesian policy towards the national language and its relationships with nation-building. However, globalization and revival of ethnicity are two factors which may serve as challenges to the national language policy. This paper will therefore also discuss problems and prospects of such a policy.

    THE ROLE OF THE MALAY LANGUAGE PRIOR TO INDONESIA'S INDEPENDENCE

    Indonesia is a multiethnic and multilingual society, of which the largest ethnic group is Javanese (47 per cent according to the 1930 population census). Nevertheless, the Javanese language was not selected as the national language of Indonesia. One of the reasons was that Javanese is a complicated language which has also been used only by the Javanese. Besides, the language is hierarchical; it is divided into high Javanese and low Javanese, which should be used in accordance with the position of the person in society, therefore it is non-democratic. The languages of other ethnic groups, for instance, the Sundanese (14.5 per cent according to the 1930 population census) and Madurese (7 per cent according to the 1930 population census), were not used by others either. Only the language of the Malays, who constituted about 1.6 per cent according to the 1930 census (see Table 3.1), was used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago. Different ethnic groups when they met used this language to communicate.

    Because of the above reasons, during the nationalist movement of Indonesia, which started in the first decade of the twentieth century, the language used among the nationalists was Malay. All the newspapers read by Indonesian political public were published in this language rather than in vernacular languages (often known in Indonesian as bahasa daerah, or regional languages).

  • Translation of the WHO CIDI into Bahasa Melayu

  • Shazana Binte Mohamed Shahwan, Mythily Subramaniam, Janhavi Vaingankar, Chong Siow Ann
  • Journal:
    Journal of Tropical Psychology / Volume 5 / 2015
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    25 May 2015, e3
    Print publication:
    2015

  • The Singapore Mental Health Survey was undertaken to establish the prevalence of mental disorders in Singapore. This necessitated translation of several modules of the WHO's Composite International Diagnostic Interview (CIDI) into Bahasa Melayu. The aim in translation was to achieve a conceptually equivalent version to the original instrument. The translation procedure was a four-step process: 1) forward translation, 2) expert panel review, 3) pre-test and cognitive interview and 4) development of the final version. The translation procedure was effective in identifying and resolving translation problems, and adapting the language of the instrument to suit the local Malay-speaking population. We recommend this four-step process for future studies to attain a fair representation of minority groups in nation-wide studies.

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