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  2. Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    The Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia ( KBBI ; lit. 'Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language') is the official dictionary of the Indonesian language compiled by Language Development and Fostering Agency and published by Balai Pustaka. This dictionary is the primary reference for the standard Indonesian language because it is the most complete ...

  3. Indonesian language - Wikipedia

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    Indonesian ( Bahasa Indonesia; [baˈhasa indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. [8] It is a standardized variety of Malay, [9] an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world, with over ...

  4. Comparison of Indonesian and Standard Malay - Wikipedia

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    In Brunei, where Malay is also an official language, the language is known as Bahasa Melayu and in English as "Malay". In Indonesia, however, there is a clear distinction between "Malay language" (bahasa Melayu) and "Indonesian" (bahasa Indonesia). Indonesian is the national language which serves as the unifying language of Indonesia; despite ...

  5. Language Development and Fostering Agency - Wikipedia

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    The Language Development and Fostering Agency (Indonesian: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa), formerly the Language and Book Development Agency (Badan Pengembangan Bahasa dan Perbukuan) and the Language Centre (Pusat Bahasa), is the institution responsible for standardising and regulating the Indonesian language as well as maintaining the indigenous languages of Indonesia.

  6. Cia-Cia language - Wikipedia

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    For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Cia-Cia, also known as Buton or Butonese, is an Austronesian language spoken principally around the city of Baubau on the southern tip of Buton island, off the southeast coast of Sulawesi, in Indonesia. [2] It is written using the Latin and Hangul scripts.

  7. Tetum language - Wikipedia

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    Tetum ( Tetun [ˈt̪et̪un̪]; Indonesian: Bahasa Tetun; Portuguese: Tétum [ˈtɛtũ]) [3] is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Timor. It is one of the official languages of Timor-Leste and it is also spoken in Belu Regency and in Indonesian West Timor . There are two main forms of Tetum as a language:

  8. History of the Malay language - Wikipedia

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    During the first Kongres Pemuda of Indonesia held in 1926, in the Sumpah Pemuda, Malay was proclaimed as the unifying language for Indonesia. In 1945, the language which was named "bahasa Indonesia", or Indonesian in English, was enshrined as the national language in the constitution of the newly independent Indonesia.

  9. List of loanwords in Indonesian - Wikipedia

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    1. From contraction of Indonesian pornografi (pornographic), from Dutch pornografie or English pornography, from French pornographie. 2. Pornografi is a formal word in Indonesia, while porno is informal. Synagogue is Judaism prayer house. The Greek word is στάδιο (stadio). 1. The Greek word is θέατρο (théatro). 2.