Indonesian - Indonesiago

Japanese: インドネシア語 - いんどねしあご
Indonesian - Indonesiago

It is a language of the Hesperonesian branch of the Austronesian (Malayo-Polynesian) language family. It was called Malay before World War II. It is the official language of the Republic of Indonesia, and together with Malay in Malaysia, it is spoken by a total of 130 million people, making it the sixth largest language in the world. The name Bahasa Indonesia was adopted in 1928, when the country was still under Dutch rule, in the Youth Pledge at the National Youth Indonesia Conference, but it only became an official language after independence in 1945. Its predecessor, Malay, was a local language along the eastern coast of Sumatra, but was already used as a common language for trade between islands in the 7th century. It still reigns over the various local languages, with Javanese being the largest, and contributes to the national unification of Indonesia. In the 7th century, the South Indian Pallava script was used, but from around the 14th century, with the introduction of Islam, it was replaced by Arabic script, and during the Dutch era, Romanization progressed, and today Indonesian and Malaysian have a unified Romanization system. The core of the grammar is the affixation system, and its usage can be quite complex, requiring considerable practice to master it.

[Sakiyama Osamu]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

オーストロネシア(マライ・ポリネシア)語族ヘスペロネシア語派の一言語。第二次世界大戦前の名称ではマレー語という。インドネシア共和国の公用語で、マレーシアのマレー語とあわせると言語人口はほぼ1億3000万人に達し、世界でも第6位の大言語である。インドネシア語Bahasa Indonesiaという呼称は、まだオランダの支配下にあった1928年、全国青年インドネシア会議における「青年の誓い」で採択されたことに始まるが、公用語となるのは1945年の独立以降のことである。前身としてのマレー語はスマトラ島東部沿岸の一地方語であったが、すでに7世紀には島々の間で交易のための共通語として用いられていた。現在も、ジャワ語を最大とする各地方語のうえに君臨して、インドネシアの国家的統一を図るのに貢献している。7世紀には南インドのパッラバ文字が使用されていたが、14世紀ごろからはイスラム教の渡来とともにアラビア文字にかわり、そしてオランダ時代にはローマ字化が進んで、現在、インドネシア語とマレーシア語とは統一したローマ字表記法をもつに至っている。文法の核心となるのは接辞法で、その用法にはかなり複雑な点があり、十分に使いこなすには相当の練習を必要とする。

[崎山 理]

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