Indonesian
A language of Indonesia (Java and Bali)
Population | 22,800,000 in Indonesia (2000). Population total all countries: 23,187,680. |
Region | Widespread in Indonesia. Also in Netherlands, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, United States. |
Alternate names | Bahasa Indonesia |
Classification | Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Malayo-Sumbawan, North and East, Malayic, Malay |
Language use | Official language. Over 140,000,000 L2 speakers. |
Language development | Fully developed. Bible: 1974–2000. |
Writing system | Arabic script. Latin script. |
Comments | Reportedly modeled on Riau Malay [zlm] of northeast Sumatra. Has regional variants. Over 80% cognate with Standard Malay [zsm]. Muslim. |
Entries from the SIL Bibliography about this language:
Academic Publications
Anonymous. 1984. A working thesaurus in Indonesian and English.
BARR, Donald F., author. 1979. "The use of deictics to identify participants in Bahasa Indonesia."
BERG, René van den; SIDU, La Ode, authors. 2000. Kamus Muna-Indonesia.
CHOU Shu Hsiu, author. 1999. Melanau and Indonesian: a comparative grammatical study.
FIELDS, Philip, author. 2010. Papuan colloquial Indonesian.
GRIMES, Charles E., author. 1996. "Indonesian—the official language of a multilingual nation."
KANA, Marit, author. 1983. "The syntax and semantics of verbal prefixes in Bahasa Indonesia."
KROEGER, Paul R., author. 2007. "Morphosyntactic vs. morphosemantic functions of Indonesian '-kan'."
LASKOWSKE, Thomas V., author. 2004. UniSpell and lexical databases.
MAHDI, Waruno, author. 1993. "Distinguishing homonymic word forms in Indonesian."
METTLER, Heidi, author. 1990. Pedoman penggunaan program teks ‘Editor 3.3’ untuk komputer.
OLSON, Kenneth S.; SODERBERG, Craig, authors. 2008. "Illustrations of the IPA: Indonesian."
PIKE, Kenneth L.; SUHARNO, Ignatius, editors. 1976. From Baudi to Indonesian.
SILZER, Peter J.; SILZER, Sheryl, authors. 1976. "Discourse considerations in Bahasa Indonesia."
TRAVIS, Edgar W., author. 1986. Penyelidikan persamaan bahasa dengan menggunakan mikrokomputer.
VOSKUIL, Jan E., author. 1993. "Verbal inflection in Indonesian."
Vernacular Publications
Batako beton untuk diusahakan sendiri dengan keterangan gambar. 1986.
Cara pembuatan kompos (Pupuk alami) dan Pemanfaatan bedengan sayuran di pekarangan rumah). 1996.
Dasar-dasar pengembangan masyarakat. 1989.
Nun uram sekwayeb: mabwe dun buku (Mari kita menulis Bahasa Kita: buku Bacaan Murid). 1999.
Peta lokasi bahasa-bahasa daerah di propinsi Irian Jaya. 1986.
Terpen village avoids avian influenza (Desa terpen terhindar dari penyakit flu burung; Papuan illustrations). 2005.
Terpen village avoids avian influenza = Desa terpen terhindar dari penyakit flu burung (Asian illustrations). 2005.