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Indonesia is rich by its tribes and its languages. As it is rich by both tribes and languages, Indonesia is combined by one special language named Indonesian language or some people say it as ‘Bahasa’.

Indonesian language is created by accumulation and assimilation of its tribe language and also from other countries languages. Indonesian language is also closest meaning to its neighborhood country, Malaysia.

In Malaysia, people talk in Malay or Malaysian language. It has same meaning for some words and has same structures in some phrases or sentences.

Actually, there are some languages that are closest to Indonesian language beside Malaysian language.

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Tagalog (Philippines language) and Indonesian Language

Tagalog or the Philippines language is the language which become the first language to be spoken in Philippines. Tagalog is the Austronesian language and it is the cousin language from Indonesian meanwhile the Malaysian language is the sibling language of Indonesian.

That is why, Tagalog is one of the language which is closest meaning to Indonesian language. It can be emphasized that the only closest thing between these two languages is only their words.

Tagalog words might not as exactly same as Indonesian words. However, the way people speak the words has the quite same sound. Here are the same words from Tagalog and Indonesian:

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Indian Language and Indonesian Language

Indian language is also closest meaning to Indonesian. As the acculturation and assimilation of this language into Indonesia, especially in some region, for example in North Sumatra and Java make Indian language affects Indonesian language.

There are four different type of language in Indian. They are Pali, Sanskrit, Hindi and Tamil. What makes them different are the people who speak the language and the area where the language are spoken.

The Indian language has the closest meaning to Indonesian especially in their words. There are some, or it can be said, there are many words that have the same meaning as Indonesian language.

Here are some examples.

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Dutch Language and Indonesian Language

Indonesia was the country who was colonized by Netherlands for more than 300 years. As the history between Indonesian and Netherland begun, the language from Netherland or it can be called by Dutch, assimilated with Indonesian language.

Some people still speak with Dutch especially from the family or people who has the Dutch blood in Indonesia or when some Indonesian people live in Netherlands.

Dutch language which is closest to Indonesian language can be seen and heard from its words. There are some same words from both Dutch and Indonesian language. Here are some examples of Dutch words.

Those are three different types of word from three different languages which are closest to Indonesian language or words because of some matters or histories.

However, they are not really as same as Indonesian language, but close enough to have the similarities especially from the science of the words. Therefore, there are some languages which are closest to Indonesian language beside Malaysian language.