Re: One language for the world
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 8, 2000, 19:58 |
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At 23:53 07.6.2000 -0700, 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?
Basically Malay -- with some concessions to Pidgin Malay! -- peppered with
Dutch, some Javanese and quite a bit of Sanskrit filtered through Javanese.
A spelling reform some 20 years ago made away with the Dutch
orthography made BI virtually identical to the standard Malay of Malaysia
(which at the same tame changed the English-derived spellings CH and SH to
C and SY), except for the Dutch and English vocabulary, which continues to
separate the two standards.
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson mailto:melroch@mail.com
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