Indonesian language step by step becomes popular in the world. It’s not just in Indonesia that applies Indonesian language lesson. It might unbelievable, but the truth is now the Indonesian language has been studied in more than 45 countries in the world. Some countries are Australia, Japan, Vietnam, Egypt, and Italy. This makes Indonesian language becomes the top 10 most widely used languages around the world. So, what makes it popular? Here are the reasons why Indonesian language is popular.
- The easy of grammar and structure
One of the advantages of the Indonesian language is the structure of language that is easy to learn by many people. There is no change in the use of verbs if used in the present, past, or future. Unlike English, the use of verbs changes because the different use by the time. Moreover, nouns in Bahasa Indonesia don’t need articles or gender like other languages. That’s why many people are interested in learning Bahasa Indonesia.
- Indonesian language is unique
Although derived from Malay, but the Indonesian language has different characteristics, both from the wording and pronunciation. Malaysia is also famous for its Malay language. Although the accent and its meaning are almost similar, the Indonesian language is more pleasant to hear and understand because Indonesian is the only language in the world. For example berputar (Indonesian language) and putar-putar (Malaysian), both of them means headache.
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- Polite language
In the history written that Indonesian language is derived from the Malay language of Riau. According to the book tittled Itinerario, written by Jan Huygen, mentioned that Malay language is famous for the most polite language in the eastern region. Although the first Malay language and Indonesian language are now different, the pride remains the same. It is because until now the Indonesian language is still considered as a noble language.
- The rich language
If sorted history, as it is known that Malay is a market language. The language of the market was created from a combination of merchant languages from all over the world that once stopped at Malay. Because at first the Indonesian language is the formation of the language traders from around the world, then the Indonesian language has thousands of words absorbed from the language of several nations in the world.
The addition of new vocabulary, both absorbed from foreign languages and from local languages, until finally it forms EYD (Ejaan Yang Disempurnakan) which means the Enhanced of Indonesian Spelling. That is why, Indonesian language is so rich.
- Easy to write
The ease of learning Bahasa Indonesia is also based on the writing factor. The Indonesian language uses Latin script such as English. While Mandarin, Japanese, and Arabic have their ways of writing. Mandarin applies the script of Hanzi, Japanese apply Kanji and Katakana, and Arabic implements Hijaiyah. That is why when you learn Indonesian Language you don’t need to learn the new script.
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- Easy to Pronounce
Besides it is easy to write, Indonesian language is also easy to pronounce. While in English, the way how to pronounce the words would be definitely different with the way of how it written. Because of that reason many people come from overseas start to learn Indonesian Language. Are you interested too?
- Easy to Learn
Indonesian is a language that is easy to learn compared to other foreign languages, such as Mandarin, Japanese, and Arabic. It is because the rules of Indonesian grammar are not as complex as three foreign languages. It was recognized a person from French names Arnaud who learnt many languages. As a result, within 3 months, the Frenchman was already able to master the Indonesian language. It is his shortest period in learning language.
- Widespread in all countries of Southern Asia
Indonesian language has been widespread in Southeast Asia since a long time ago. In addition to Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei Darussalam, and Indonesia, this language is also spoken by speakers in Southern Thailand and parts of Sri Lanka. The people in the region of Papua also start to use this language. Moreover, in Timor Leste, Indonesian Language is teill used as the daily language there.
- Officially learnt in many countries
Many countries in the world have officially made Indonesia as one of their course at school or study. The students of some countries like Morocco, South Korea, Japanese, event French make some studies club of Indonesian language. It is little bit different that Indonesian Language in Australia is their fourth language. Even Vietnam has made Indonesian as their second language
- An Issue that Indonesian Language will be an International language
The discourse to make Indonesian language as the international language first appeared in the 41st Session of the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia (Mabbim) Assembly and the 7th Session of the Southeast Asian Literature Council (Masters) in Makassar, March 13, 2002. The seminar produced a number formulation, among which the proposal for Indonesian language is used as the official language of ASEAN and AFTA (ASEAN Free Trade Area).
- Many Tourists are interested to study the cultures of Indonesia
Besides Indonesia has a lot of beautiful natures view, it also has various cultures that make some people from other countries want to learn. Indonesia is a country with hundreds of tribes that create the different cultures. Some cultures could be categorized as unique and they would never be found in other places. Because there are many foreign experts of culture want to learn Indonesian cultures, they start to learn Indonesian language.
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- On the 9th Rank of most users language in the world
There are about 160 million people active in Indonesian language including Malaysia. This language is officially used as the national language of Indonesia after the proclamation procession took place. This caused Indonesia considered as one of the top ten languages with most users. It could be such a main point that it is popular language.
Now, you have got the reasons of why Indonesian language is popular. So, do you have any intention to learn this language too? If you are interested to learn Indonesian language, you could see Characteristics of Indonesian Languages for further information.
