Bahasa Indonesia translation Services

Translating for Indonesia

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Bahasa Indonesia translation

Whether translating from English to Bahasa Indonesia or translating from Bahasa Indonesia to English at Gemini we only use translators whose mother tongue is the target language, meaning that the translator is fluent in both languages but translate into their native tongue only, never the other way round. Just one part of our Translation Quality model.

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The basis of this language was for many centuries used as a lingua franca or a means of communication among the traders, missionaries etc in the Indonesian archipelago including Indians, Chinese, Arabs and Europeans, perhaps as early as the first century. Because it was a lingua franca it had to be relatively simple for the different people visiting the archipelago to be able to communicate with it, in a relatively short time.

The place of origin of this language is around the Riau islands in the Malacca Straits, the thoroughfare of the trading traffic. The earliest epigraphical evidence of the language, known as the “old Malay” language, is dated around 7th century. The language belongs to the family of Austronesian languages, found in the region from Madagascar in the west, Taiwan in the north, Easter Island in the East, and New Zealand, Christmas and Cocos Islands in the south.

The Sanskrit influence from India is found mostly in religion, literature, architecture and philosophy. The Arabic influence is of course mostly in religion and law. The Chinese vocabulary is very limited and to be found mostly in food. Portuguese is the origin of many words describing things which were introduced through contact with Europeans . The Dutch introduced much administrative and educational terminology, and English is the origin of most contemporary technical and electronic terminology.

The language was originally written in the pre-Nagari (Pallawa) script. With the arrival of Islam it was then written in the Arabic script (called Jawi script in Malaysia). The Dutch introduced the Romanised script using the Dutch spelling. This is when the Malay language used in what is now Malaysia began to differ from the Indonesian language in the former Netherlands East Indies Territory.

References:
http://www.bahasakita.com/articles/history-of-the-indonesian/

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