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Why Indonesian language seems so different from other Asian Languages?
Compared to other Asian languages, Indonesian seems very different. First of all, Indonesian uses Latin alphabet unlike many languages in Asia that use characters of their own (Chinese and Arabic for instance). In addition, a lot of Indonesian words come from other language making it more similar to a European language rather than an Asian language. Also I've heard that Indonesian is easier to learn rather than other Asian languages. Finally, Indonesian has fairly easy grammar. Why it is not similar to most Asian language?
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Answer by ➦ кɘʟʟу
Just to be Devil's Advocate here, Indonesian writes with the Latin alphabet because it hadn't developed its own writing system before the Dutch settled there. Also, Chinese can be said to have much easier grammar (than, say, Japanese) because it's closer grammatically to English, so Indonesian isn't the only "easy" Asian language.
I'm sure Asia's linguistic history has a lot to do with their general history; like how China isolated itself from the rest of the world for thousands of years, how Indonesia is basically a set of islands in the middle of the sea that got taken over by westerners (imagine how Dutch has probably influenced the language over the past few hundred years), and much more.
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