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- When Indonesia declared its independence in 1945, Bahasa Indonesia was officially established as the national language. The government then embarked on a massive effort to standardize and promote the language across the archipelago.
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Aug 17, 2024 · How did Bahasa Indonesia become Indonesia's national language and why is it so successful in uniting the culturally and linguistically diverse nation?
Oct 21, 2015 · This chapter deals with the origin of the Indonesian national language and its development from 1928 to the Reformasi (Reform) period. It also examines Indonesian policy towards the national language and its relationships with nation-building.
- Lucy R. Montolalu, Leo Suryadinata
- 2007
The combination of nationalistic, political, and practical concerns ultimately led to the successful adoption of Indonesian as a national language. In 1945, Javanese was easily the most prominent language in Indonesia.
How did Bahasa Indonesia become the national language? The history of Bahasa Indonesia is closely tied to the country’s struggle for independence and nation-building efforts. The language has its roots in Malay, which had been used as a trade language throughout the archipelago for centuries.
- The History of Indonesian
- The Functions of Indonesian Today
- Writing and Spelling Indonesian
From earliest recorded times Malay was, and still is, the native tongue of the people who live on both sides of the Straits of Malacca that separate Sumatra from the Malay Peninsula. Because the Straits have always been a busy sea thoroughfare, countless travellers and traders came into contact with its language. Over the centuries they bore Malay ...
Indonesians are overwhelmingly bilingual, indeed many people have a good command of three of four languages. In infancy most people learn at least one of the country’s many local languages and later learn Indonesian at school or in the streets of cities or from television and radio. It is not clear how many people learn Indonesian in infancy as the...
The very earliest records in Malay are inscriptions on stone using a syllable-based script derived from the indigenous scripts of India. With the coming of Islam in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, Arabic script was adopted to write Malay. Called Jawi script (huruf Jawi) or Arab-Malay script (huruf Arab-Melayu), today this script is still us...
A significant component of twentieth-century attempts to create an over-arching Indonesian national identity has been the development and promotion of a unifying national language which would simultaneously bind the population together and serve as an effective tool for use in all official domains and education, though not necessarily displace ...
Even before the second world war, the trend toward making Malay the common and unifying language for all of Indonesia had become apparent. In 1930, for example, all-Indonesia youth organizations approved a resolution pledging support of the concept of one nation, one people, and one language.
