Re: Bahasa Indonesia (was: One language for the world)

Oops, somehow I goofed.  This longish post was my work, not Lasailly's:
 >>Barry a crit :
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>>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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>>they took vocab from Malay  Javanese  some other local langs.
>>that makes a lot of Arabic and Sanskrit/Pali words too.>
>        Yes.  Plus some Portuguese and lots of Dutch (where peninsular Ml.
>has English -- e.g. BI potlot, Ml. pensil)  etc. etc. etc.