2008/07/22 by Craig D. Soderberg, Kenneth S. Olson · 5 citations
Arts and Humanities · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Archaeology #Archipelago #Artificial intelligence #Austronesian languages #Computer science #Geography #History #Independence (probability theory) #Indonesian #Lingua franca #Linguistic Variation and Morphology #Linguistics #Malay #Mathematics #Philosophy #Phonetics and Phonology Research #Statistics #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation #Variety (cybernetics)
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openalex publication_date 2008/07/22 · openalex created_date 2022/05/12 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04
Indonesian is an Austronesian language, closely related to Malay. Malay served as a lingua franca throughout the Malay Archipelago for centuries, and a variant of Malay was adopted as the official language of Indonesia when independence was declared in 1945. The variety described here is sometimes referred to as Standard Indonesian. Its autoglossonym is ‘Bahasa Indonesia’.