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7 unusual facts about Indonesian language


Henrik Wergeland

The phrase I die a deist, an honest worshiper of Allah, may point to his religious tolerance, and the fact that Christian Arabs in the Middle East use the word Allah for the Christian god, as does the Indonesian Bible.

Highgate, Western Australia

Highgate Primary participates actively in local sporting events and teaches the Indonesian language as a special LOTE.

Indonesian language

Sanskrit words and sentences are also used in names, titles, and mottoes of the Indonesian National Police and Indonesian Armed Forces such as: Bhayangkara, Laksamana, Jatayu, Garuda, Dharmakerta Marga Reksyaka, Jalesveva Jayamahe, Kartika Eka Paksi, Swa Bhuwana Paksa, Rastra Sewakottama, Yudha Siaga, etc.

Indonesian rock

Rock Indo (Indonesian:Rock Indo) is rock music from Indonesia, a product of the culture and globalizing outlook of the country, similar to this genre's music globally.

Sago monitor

The lizard was named obor (meaning "torch" in Indonesian) due to its unique coloration.

Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia

Sekolah Tinggi Seni Indonesia (STSI; Indonesian: Advanced school for the arts of Indonesia) is an arts university in Indonesia with several institutions.

Vladimir Makarenko

In 1960 he initiated the teaching of Tagalog as second oriental language for students from Malay/Indonesian Department.


Allison Sudradjat

She was awarded a scholarship to Perth College, where she studied Indonesian, before winning an undergraduate scholarship to the Australian National University (ANU) in 1983.

Annabel Teh Gallop

Dr. Annabel, in association with Bernard Arps, who is a lecturer in Indonesian and Javanese at London University's School of Oriental and African Studies, has contributed a ground-breaking book on Indonesian art, under the name Golden Letters: Writing Traditions of Indonesia and Surat Emas: Budaya Tulis di Indonesia.

Anugerah

Anugerah (Blessing) is an Indonesian television serial sinetron fifth long-running drama with 473 episodes after Cinta Fitri with 1002 episodes, Putri yang Ditukar with 676 episodes, Islam KTP with 558 episodes and Suami-Suami Takut Istri with 512 episodes.

Bernard Arps

Arps, in association with Annabel Teh Gallop, produced a bilingual photographic catalog of Indonesian manuscripts, "Golden letters: writing traditions of Indonesia" ("Surat Emas: Budaya Tulis di Indonesia" in Indonesian).

Big World

The front cover of the album features the phrase "Big World" in French, Persian, Mandarin Chinese, Greek, Dutch, Korean, Thai, Russian, Irish Gaelic, Armenian, Hindi, Hebrew, Indonesian, Arabic, and Polish.

Black-crowned Night Heron

In the Falkland Islands, the bird is called "quark", which is an onomatopoeia similar to its name in many other languages, like "kwak" in Dutch and Frisian, "kvakoš noční" in Czech, "квак" in Ukrainian, "кваква" in Russian, "Vạc" in Vietnamese, "Kowak-malam" in Indonesian, and "Waqwa" in Quechua.

Frances Yip

In her 41-year career, Yip has released more than 80 albums, mostly of songs in American English, Indonesian, Thai, Malay, Mexican Spanish, Japanese, Tagalog, Cantonese, and Mandarin.

Indonesian Inter Island Cup

The Indonesian Inter Island Cup (IIC) (Indonesian: Piala Antar Pulau) is a national level football tournament held by the PSSI, Indonesian FA, as pre-season tournament during the Indonesia Super League season break.

Kacapi

Kacapi is a zither-like Sundanese musical instrument played as the main accompanying instrument in the Tembang Sunda or Mamaos Cianjuran, kacapi suling (tembang Sunda without vocal accompaniment) genre (called kecapi seruling in Indonesian), pantun stories recitation or an additional instrument in Gamelan Degung performance.

Orang Pendek

Orang Pendek (Indonesian for "short person") is the most common name given to a cryptid, or cryptozoological animal, that reportedly inhabits remote, mountainous forests on the island of Sumatra.

Pandang Island

Pandang Island (Pulau Pandang in Indonesian) is a small island in the Strait of Malacca, off the coast of Sumatra, about 47 km from Tanjung Balai and 10 km north of Salahnama Island.

Pisang Ambon

Pisang means banana in Malay/Indonesian and Ambon is the name of an Indonesian island which was once a Dutch colony.

Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Radio Nederland carried speech programming on shortwave and satellite in the English, Spanish, Indonesian, French and Papiamento languages.

Salahnama Island

Salahnama Island (Pulau Salahnama in Indonesian) is a small island in the Strait of Malacca, off the coast of Sumatra, about 40 km from Tanjung Balai and 10 km south of Pandang Island.

Santri

The American sociologist, Clifford Geertz, identified three main cultural streams (aliran in Indonesian) in Javanese society.

Sound symbolism

Linguist Keith McCune demonstrated in his doctoral thesis that virtually every word in the Indonesian language has an iconic (phonosemantic) component.

Television Corporation of Singapore

TCS-8 was delayed telecasts the Indonesian television serial sinetron longest-running drama series Dewi Bintari (from MNCTV was introduced on 1 December 1994) and Anugerah (from RCTI with 473-episode and was introduced on 9 January 1995) with Indonesian dubbing and Singapore Mandarin subtitles.


see also

Bantenese

Besides Sundanese, Javanese and Betawi dialect, Indonesian language is also widely spoken especially by other ethnic immigrants from other parts of Indonesia especially in urban centers.

I La Galigo

It is based on an adaption by Rhoda Grauer of the epic creation myth Sureq Galigo of the Bugis from South Sulawesi, written between the 13th and 15th century in the Indonesian language Buginese.