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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Indonesian language
		Indonesian is a standardized dialect of the Malay language that was officially defined with the declaration of Indonesia's independence in 1945.
		Indonesian is a standardized dialect of the Malay language that was officially defined with the declaration of Indonesian independence in 1945, and the two languages remain quite similar.
		Indonesian is part of the Western Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Indonesian_language (1000 words)

	Indonesian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indonesian is a standardized dialect of the Malay language that was officially defined with the declaration of Indonesian independence in 1945, and the two languages remain quite similar.
		Indonesian is part of the Western Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages.
		Indonesian does not make use of grammatical gender, and there are only a few words that use natural gender; the same word is used for he and she or for his and her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indonesian_language (2122 words)

	Indonesian language Summary
		Indonesian nationalists also favored Malay because it was widely known, easy to learn, and lacked the hierarchical rules of Javanese, which they often rejected as "feudal." In 1928, a nationalist youth congress formally adopted Malay as the national language, calling it Indonesian—Bahasa Indonesia— after the independent country to which they aspired.
		The language is spoken fluently as a second language by most Indonesians, who use a regional language (examples are Minangkabau and Javanese) at home and in their local community.
		Indonesian is spoken throughout Indonesia (and East Timor), although it is used most extensively in urban areas, and less so in the rural parts of Indonesia.
	www.bookrags.com /Indonesian_language (3093 words)

	indonesian language - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Indonesian is a standardized dialect of the Malay language, and the two languages remain quite similar.
		Bahasa Indonesia is based on Malay, an Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) language which had been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries, and was elevated to the status of official language with the Indonesian declaration of independence in 1945.
		Compared with European languages, Indonesian has a strikingly small use of grammatically gendered words; the same word is used for he and she or for his and her.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/indonesian-language (1792 words)

	Indonesian alphabet, pronunciation and language
		Indonesian, an Austronesian language, is a standardized form of Malay and is spoken throughout Indonesia.
		About 30 million people speak Indonesian as their first language and a further 140 million speak it as a second language.
		In the 1930s, as part of the independence movement, the Indonesian language was standardised and the term Bahasa Indonesia was adopted as the name of the language.
	www.omniglot.com /writing/indonesian.htm (281 words)

	Learn Indonesian Language - Free Conversational Indonesian Lessons Online - Common Indonesian Words and Phrases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Phrasebase drastically simplifies the language learning process by prioritizing the various components of learning and focusing your study efforts on the areas of greatest importance.
		The key is to immerse yourself in the language and use it as often as possible in order to build up your skills of speaking it and listening to it, understanding and comprehending it...
		Indonesian Language Exchange Pen-Pals - Community of people from around the world interested in teaching you their language and sharing their culture with you.
	www.phrasebase.com /learn/indonesian.php (1866 words)

	Edge Translation
		Indonesian tends to be used in larger urban areas, while local languages are more widely used in small towns and rural areas.
		Indonesian is the official language of government administration.
		It is also the language of literature and popular culture such as TV melodramas and comedy, pop novels, popular songs, cartoons and comics.
	www.edgetranslation.net /indonesian1.htm (302 words)

	Indonesian Translation Services - Translators English/Indonesian
		Bahasa Indonesia (which is also referred to simply as Indonesian) is heavily influenced by Malay, which was the most widely used language on the Indonesian archipelago for many centuries.
		Indonesian was made the official language of Indonesia with the promulgation of the 1945 declaration of independence.
		The language is spoken as a first language by a scant 7 percent of Indonesia's population and only 45 percent of the population of Malaysia.
	www.greentranslations.com /indonesian-translation.html (259 words)

	Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)
		Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia "language of Indonesia") is the official language of Indonesia.
		Bahasa Indonesia is a standardized dialect of Malay which had been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries, and was elevated to the status of an official language with the Indonesian declaration of independence from the Netherlands in 1945.
		Indonesian is an official language of Indonesia where it is spoken by 23 million people.
	www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/june/BahasaIndonesia.html (721 words)

	The Indonesian Language at Cornell - Department of Asian Studies
		Bahasa Indonesia is the national language of the archipelagic Indonesian country, spoken throughout the seventeen thousand islands by over 200 millions Indonesians with diverse backgrounds.
		Indonesian is offered at all levels from the elementary to the advanced.
		Indonesian 121-122, which is four credit hours, introduces the student to conversational modern Indonesian with related cultural insights.
	lrc.cornell.edu /asian/courses/indonesian (460 words)

	Overview of the Indonesian Language to Help You Learn Indonesian
		Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) is the official language of the Republic of Indonesia, where it is used in government, schools, and the media.
		Indonesian is a member of the Austronesian family of languages that extends from Madagascar to Polynesia.
		The Indonesian media are constantly translating from English and, in the process, contaminating Indonesian with English words and structures.
	www.transparent.com /languagepages/indonesian/overview.htm (369 words)

	Indonesian phrasebook - Wikitravel
		Indonesian (Indonesian: Bahasa Indonesia) is the official language and lingua franca of Indonesia, and also widely spoken in East Timor.
		Indonesian is closely related to Malay, but the main difference is the vocabulary: Indonesian has been heavily influenced by Dutch and Javanese (and also Sanskrit), while Malay has been heavily influenced by English and Arabic.
		Indonesian is very easy to pronounce: it has one of the most phonetic writing systems in the world, with only a small number of simple consonants and relatively few vowel sounds.
	wikitravel.org /en/Indonesian_phrasebook (833 words)

	Pimsleur Indonesian - Compact Language Program
		Bahasa Indonesian, or "Indonesian Language", is the official language of Indonesia; although it is the native language of perhaps as little as ten percent of Indonesia's two hundred million people, it is at least a second language to virtually the entire population of the country.
		Indonesian is more or less the same language as Malay, the national language of Indonesia's neighbor Malaysia.
		Both languages are written using the Roman alphabet; Malay, since Malaysia is a former colony of Great Britian, was rendered as a written language using British conventions; Indonesian, since Indonesia was formerly a colony of the Netherlands, is written according to Dutch standards.
	www.pluralitylanguage.com /languages/pimsleur/indonesian/indonesian.htm (339 words)

	Language
		Indonesian is almost the same as Malay, which is spoken in Malaysia.
		Indonesian, on the other hand, is as easy as language learning gets, even for people who have never studied a foreign language.
		Indonesian is primarily a phonetic language so words are basically pronounced in the same way as they are spelled.
	www.hello-indonesia.com /HelloIndonesia/Language.htm (860 words)

	Learn to Speak Indonesian -- Pimsleur Indonesian Language Courses
		Indonesian is based on classical Malay and has existed for 70 years and is still in the process of developoing.
		Indonesian is written in Roman letters but the roots of some words are Sanskrit, reflecting the islands' Hindu-Buddhist history before the coming of Islam in the 13th century.
		Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and was one of the world’s leading experts in applied linguistics.
	www.corporatelanguageservices.com /pimsleur_indonesian.html (1031 words)

	Indonesian Language at SAIS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Indonesian is a variety of the Malay language and belongs to the Austronesian language family, which stretches from Madagascar in the west to Easter Island in the east, and Taiwan in the north to New Zealand in the south.
		Under the name of Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language), it serves as a means of communication between the different ethnic groups, and as the language of administration, education and scholarship, the media, and an extensive and rapidly growing modern literature.
		The standard language is continually being developed and transformed to make it more suitable to the diverse needs of a modernizing society.
	www.sais-jhu.edu /programs/asia/sea/sea_languages/language_indonesian.html (286 words)

	Learn Indonesian, Indonesian Windows, Indonesian Office, Indonesian Software, Indonesian Dictionary, Indonesian ...
		Indonesian is the national language of the Republic of Indonesia.
		Indonesian is virtually the same language as Malay, the latter spoken in Malaysia.
		Thus the Indonesian j is y in Malay (e.g., kaju—wood, Malay: kayu); Indonesian dj is j in Malay (gadjah—elephant, Malay: gajali); Indonesian tj is ch in Malay (kutjing—cat, Malay: kuching); and Indonesian sj is sh in Malay (sjarat—condition, Malay: sharat).
	www.worldlanguage.com /Languages/Indonesian.htm (340 words)

	Indonesian Translation - Translate Indonesian Language Translator
		Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia and a remarkable language in several ways.
		Indonesian as a modern dialect of Malay has borrowed heavily from many languages, among others: Sanskrit, Arabic, Portuguese, Dutch, Chinese and many other languages, including other Austronesian languages.
		Indonesian is written in Latin script and is phonetic, especially since the spelling reform of 1972, which changed spellings based on the Dutch language, such as tj for the sound ch.
	www.translation-services-usa.com /languages/indonesian.shtml (1587 words)

	Edge Translation
		Indonesian is written using the latin alphabet, which consists of 26 letters.
		Bahasa means language, rather than a type of language.
		It is a standardised dialect of the Malay language and the two remain quite similar.
	www.edgetranslation.net /bahasaindonesian1.htm (344 words)

	Indonesian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia) is a language used by over 200 million residents of Indonesia and millions more world-wide.
		Bahasa Indonesia or Indonesian Language is both an old and new language.
		As a symbol of national pride and unity, Bahasa Indonesia spread rapidly, incorporating many new words so that today, although similar, it is quite distinct from Malay.
	www.flw.com /languages/indonesian.htm (84 words)

	Indonesian Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Indonesian-Malay Language Program of the University of Hawai'i at Manoa is the first Indonesian language program worldwide to offer a comprehensive distance learning program for advanced Indonesian.
		To assist you in determining your proficiency level in the Indonesian language, you should download the European Language Portfolio self-assessment grid and the self-assessment checklist.
		All texts are authentic reports from the Indonesian media, mainly taken from mainstream newspapers and magzines such as Tempo and Kompas, and supplemented with recorded radio reports and interviews.
	www.bahasa.net /online (587 words)

	Learn Indonesian Now!
		The Pimsleur Indonesian course immediately immerses you in a Indonesian conversation to help you grasp the syntax or structure of the Indonesian language.
		If you go to a language school, you tend to go somewhere where they have a special theory about how language should be learned, and they impose that theory upon you.
		Every language is cut so close to a pattern, that some linguists regard them basically as dialects of one language.
	www.pimsleurapproach.com /learn-indonesian.asp (2231 words)

	AllRefer.com - Indonesia - Language \| Indonesian Information Resource
		Austronesian is a family of agglutinative languages spoken in the area bounded by Madagascar in the western Indian Ocean and Easter Island in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
		Perhaps the central feature of the Indonesian national culture in the late twentieth century was the Indonesian language.
		The term Bahasa Indonesia, which refers to a modified form of Malay, was coined by Indonesian nationalists in 1928 and became a symbol of national unity during the struggle for independence (see The National Revolution, 1945-50, ch.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/indonesia/indonesia57.html (520 words)

	Easy Indonesian - Indonesian Language
		Bahasa means language, and Bahasa Indonesia is the lingua franca of the archipelago.
		With over 350 native languages currently in use throughout the country, a good lingua franca is clearly necessary When pronounced or spoken, sentences in Bahasa Indonesia (Bahasa) are usually not as lively as English, and like Deutsche (German), words in Bahasa are pronounced pretty much as they are written.
		It's good to speak a bit of the language of a country you are visiting, or at least understand commonly used expression or greetings - this will allow you to get better involved with the people and culture.
	www.indo.com /tips/easy.html (295 words)

	Indonesian language - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is spoken as a mother tongue by only 7% of the population of Indonesia, but altogether almost 200 million people speak it, with varying degrees of proficiency.
		This phenomenon is exacerbated by the trendy use of slang, particularly in the cities.
		This is not essential for the learner of Indonesian, but it will help to distinguish t from d, which are otherwise almost identical.
	voyager.in /Indonesian_language (2129 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: List of Indonesian language television channels
		This is a list of television stations broadcasting in Indonesian.
		TPI (Indonesian Education Television) is an Indonesian private television station based in East Jakarta.
		Because Indonesians place great importance on personal relationships and mutual understanding, partnerships tend to be based primarily on genuine accord, with the written contract playing a less significant role.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Indonesian-language-television-channels (562 words)

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