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| Title: | Indonesian |
| Author: | Craig D. Soderberg |
| Author: | Kenneth S. Olson |
| Institution: | SIL International & University of North Dakota |
| Linguistic Field: | General Linguistics |
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Indonesian
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| Abstract: | 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’. |
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This article appears in Journal of the International Phonetic Association Vol. 38, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST . |
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