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Indonesian alphabet


Subject Linguistics

Place South-Eastern Asia » Indonesia

DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631214816.1999.x


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The Indonesian variety of Malay is called Bahasa Indonésia ‘Indonesian language’. Its orthography in Roman letters was standardized and unified with that of Malay in Malaysia in 1972. It is very regular and largely phonemic. Prior to the 1972 reform the spelling system was based on the Dutch values of the letters of the alphabet, having evolved during the colonial period (table 4). The conspicuous Dutch <oe> spelling for [u] was replaced by <u> in 1947, whence Soerabaja became Surabaya.Table 4 Indonesian spellings until and since 1972 ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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