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BAHASA INDONESIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia
Synonyms:
Bahasa; Bahasa Indonesia; Indonesian
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Bahasa Indonesia" is a kind of...):
Malay (a western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bahasa Indonesia"):
Javanese (the Indonesian language spoken on Java)
Sundanese (the Indonesian language spoken on West Java)
Balinese (the Indonesian language of the people of Bali)