Indonesia is a country with diverse ethnicity. Do you know that Indonesia is comprised of 17,508 islands in total? This huge diversity accounts for the many languages spoken in Indonesia. You might know that Bahasa Indonesia is the official language in this country, which Indonesians hold on to proudly as it is their Indonesian heritage […]
So, you have learned how to pronounce Indonesian alphabets and now moving on to pronounce Indonesian words. You may be asking How to Pronounce Indonesian Names? In general, Indonesian words pronunciation is not very difficult because it is spoken exactly as it is written. However, because English and Indonesian alphabets have a different way of pronunciation, there […]
As you have learned how to pronounce Indonesian alphabets, the next step is learning to pronounce Indonesian names. It is important to note that Indonesian names are completely different from western naming standard. In general, Indonesians only use one name or mononymic name, two names without a family name or polynymic, and polynymic with the […]
As we use our language in our daily life we will always use a lot of words. One of those kind of word is causative word. Not only in English language, we also use causative word in Indonesia language. Causative word is called as a verb, as in the word we found “cause” that mean […]
Every word have their own meaning, what if we added some prefix into it? will it change? here is the answer. In Indonesia there is a lot of prefix that we can add to the words, but the most common prefix that we will see is Indonesian me– prefix. First of all we have to […]
Language in around the world has own Characteristic of Indonesian language, which is very interesting to study, include Indonesian Language. In Bahasa Indonesia, vowel words is similar with English vowel words or alphabet. But it turns out become one of the most interesting yet sophisticated material to learn. It has been divided in four category, […]
What is The Indonesian Alphabet? The Indonesian alphabet and language has gone through some changes in the last few years. In 1972, the government made changes on the spelling system due to some reasons. The changes, however, is made to make the language easier to learn and spell. Nowadays, how to talk with Indonesian is […]
Bahasa Indonesia is the national and heritage language of the country. Almost 90 percent of Indonesian understand and speak the language, but actually, Bahasa Indonesia is not the mother language of the majority people. Most of the Indonesian people speak the mother language of their regions such as Javanese, Balinese, Sundanese, and much more. Most […]
When you read this title, perhaps this is also became your question : how long it takes to learn Bahasa Indonesia? Some people can quickly learn Bahasa and speak like a Native. Others may need a longer time and struggle to speak, even just Indonesian Grammar, or maybe just Indonesian Alphabet. No one can predict how […]
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7 Characteristics of Indonesian Language
Every language around the world has own its characteristic that distinguish each other, and so is Indonesian. In Bahasa Indonesia, there are Morphology of Indonesia Language that shows its characteristics of Indonesian Language. But we will explore more about the characteristic itself. 1. Arbitrary First thing of characteristic in Indonesian language is arbitrary. Arbitrary means that the […]