Re: One language for the world
| From: | Jonathan Chang <zhang2323@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 8, 2000, 20:12 |
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In a message dated 2000/06/08 06:56:32 AM, 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?
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It's a mix of Malay, Pali/Sanskrit, Arabic, & Indonesianized
international words (i.e. cybernetics ===> _sibernatika_). A truly polyglot
language & IMHO a better IAL (International Auxiliary Language) for this
reason as well as the fact that it is supposedly the easiest language this
side of pidgin languages to learn quickly.
zHANg