It isn't just Bahasa on its own, it's Bahasa Indonesia, which could be translated as "Indonesia(n) language." So yeah. There is also Bahasa Malaysia, but most anglos just call it Malay. A bit too general, since Bahasa Malaysia is the national standard of Malaysia while Malay is a pluricentric language with multiple standards.
On the theme of language, while Swahili is a very broadly-spoken language overall, it is widely believed that it is widely-spoken as a mother tongue. This is actually not entirely true, as most L1 Swahili speakers are from (especially eastern) Tanzania. It is estimated that up to 150 million people total speak Swahili, but only 18 million at most speak it as a first language.
Something more blatantly false is that Swahili is a variety of Arabic. In spite of up to a fifth of the vocabulary coming from the same, Swahili is very much a Bantu, and more generally Niger-Congo, language, lacking the uniquely Semitic morphosyntactic feature of transfixation/non-concatenative morphology (where word roots are comprised solely of consonants and then grammatical and derivational features are added with vowels) as well as several sounds that are found in Arabic (primarily of the post-velar non-vowel persuasion), while having many more typically Niger-Congo morphological features such as a robust noun-class system (Arabic has a mere gender system like like many mainland Eurasian languages) and greater agglutination of both verbs and nouns, and also sounds more characteristic of Sub-Saharan Africa such as implosives and prenasalized obstruents (which are by no means restricted to Africa but are hard not to find there and both almost impossible to find in Arabic).
On the theme of language, while Swahili is a very broadly-spoken language overall, it is widely believed that it is widely-spoken as a mother tongue. This is actually not entirely true, as most L1 Swahili speakers are from (especially eastern) Tanzania. It is estimated that up to 150 million people total speak Swahili, but only 18 million at most speak it as a first language.
Something more blatantly false is that Swahili is a variety of Arabic. In spite of up to a fifth of the vocabulary coming from the same, Swahili is very much a Bantu, and more generally Niger-Congo, language, lacking the uniquely Semitic morphosyntactic feature of transfixation/non-concatenative morphology (where word roots are comprised solely of consonants and then grammatical and derivational features are added with vowels) as well as several sounds that are found in Arabic (primarily of the post-velar non-vowel persuasion), while having many more typically Niger-Congo morphological features such as a robust noun-class system (Arabic has a mere gender system like like many mainland Eurasian languages) and greater agglutination of both verbs and nouns, and also sounds more characteristic of Sub-Saharan Africa such as implosives and prenasalized obstruents (which are by no means restricted to Africa but are hard not to find there and both almost impossible to find in Arabic).
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(06-11-2022, 10:13 PM)Kyng Wrote: I love how [Abacab] has a track with a section named "Lurker", when the album title itself looks like Lurker's attempt to spell "Abacus" or something .
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