10 Interesting Fact About Linguistics and language history

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Languages:

• Indonesian is one of the 700 languages derived from Austronesia.
• Indonesian is the official language in Indonesia and has been used since 1945.
• Before the 20th century, Indonesian was only used in areas around Java.
• Indonesian comes from the Malay language carried by the Portuguese invaders.
• Indonesian combines many words from Dutch and Chinese.
• Indonesian uses a vocal system, where each word must have a vocal.
• Indonesian also uses a gugger system, where each word must end with members of a particular group.
• Indonesian uses different punctuation from English, such as dots, commas, and question marks.
• Indonesian has several exceptions from standard rules in language, such as the addition of connecting words at the end of words.
• Indonesian also uses foreign words originating from Dutch, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese and Indian.