Re: One language for the world
| From: | John Cowan <cowan@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 8, 2000, 13:27 |
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On Wed, 7 Jun 2000, Barry Garcia wrote:
> Question on Bahasa Indonesia: is the lexicon mainly from one Indonesian
> language? In other words, how did they come up with the lexicon for the
> language?
It's not a native language of Indonesia at all: it is a reduced form
of Malay. Pidgin and creole forms of Malay have been used as a
trading language throughout the area for centuries.
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