Arabic and its Huge Impact on Indonesian & Malay!

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I’m from the US but I have been living in Indonesia for over 3 years. Before Indonesia, I used to live in Jordan and studied Arabic throughout college and grad school, so I am quite familiar with both languages. When learning Indonesian it always excites me to come across familiar words from Arabic. Between English and Arabic, I have had a huge advantage learning vocab! Indonesian also has a lot of loan words from Dutch, Portuguese, Sanskrit, and Chinese. I have always thought if you mixed all the languages in the world together, Indonesian would be the result!

You are probably the biggest reason I got into linguistics, after I discovered your video on the Basque language. Since then, I have been a language maniac. Best of all, your content is always enjoyable and doesn't require a linguistics PHD for anyone to understand.

As a Malaysian, very happy to see this kind of video. A tiny bit of differences in spelling that's not mentioned in the video. Indonesian - Malay Kursi <-> Kerusi Serikat <-> Syarikat Kawin <-> Kahwin Edit: Kahwin, thanks Vibrate69 for correcting my typo.

As a native Arabic speaker, this video really surprised me, i didn't know that Arabic language influence reached Malaysia and Indonesia. My regards from Algeria to our Malaysian and Indonesian brothers and sisters, and to you 'Langfocus' too.

Arabic has an influence in so many languages, it also has a strong influence in my language, spanish.

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Being an Indonesian and especially a Muslim myself, Arabic words and phrases have been an inseperable part of my life. From some basic words like, "salam" and "maaf", into some more "religious" phrases like "Ya Allah", "Alhamdulillah", "Astaghfirullah", I don't know why but I've been saying those words involuntarily without actually having to think that those are Arabic, I took them just as some daily Indonesian words, even some of my Non-Muslim friends said "Ya Allah" and "Astaghfirullah" once, in which, I wasn't really surprised due to the obvious reason. Not to mention the Jawi and Pegon script which are basically Arabic script with some newly-modified letters to fit the phonology of Malay and some Indonesian local languages (Like Javanese, Sundanese, Acehnese, or Buginese for example). Like it or not, Arabic has played a big role in the development in both Malay and Indonesian language. And as a learner of Arabic myself, I feel so lucky and glad to be able to recognize many Arabic words without having to memorize them, since I've been exposed to these words through my entire life to this day. سلام من اندونيسيا!

I and my indonesian friend used to take arabic language course in a german university. Once we had a word (تَاجِر - tājir). We laughed after we heard this word. Curiously, the teacher asked why we laughed. We then tell her, that this word in Indonesian means "rich", but it is used as a slang word. The teacher then revealed the arabic meaning: "merchant". We were surprised though, but it makes sense.

love to malaysia, indonesia and brunei from palestine, i been learning your language since 3 months and its such nice language.

As a Malay speaker from Malaysia 🇲🇾, i know that we have tons of Arabic loanwords, but never knew that some of the “Malay words” come from Arabic. It fascinates me that so many Arabic loanwords are being used in our daily lives. Thanks for the video!!

YES, As an Arabic native speaker i was surprised to know that Arabic has that influence at malay nad Indonesian language

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Im Algerian 🇩🇿 and i love our brothers in Indonesia 🇮🇩 and Malaysia 🇲🇾

As a native Arabic speaker, I didn't think our language influenced Malay and Indonesian this much. Happy to see it!

Arabic indeed left its big mark on the Indonesian language. I suppose that Arabic is the second largest source of loanwords in Indonesian after Dutch.

For word "book" in indonesian, there are 3 loan words from 3 languages Dutch = Boek refers to any book, school book, etc Sanskrit = Pustaka refers to ancient book / historic book Arabic = Kitab refers to religious book, holy book

Fun Fact: Though almost all of the days of the week in Malay/Indonesian came from their Arabic counterparts, the word for Sunday in Indonesian is "Minggu" from the Portuguese "Domingo" while in Malay it's "Ahad" from Arabic. This is because when the Indonesian language was being formalised they wanted to give representation for the country's Christian communities. Edit: Apparently there a lot of local differences with using Minggu/Ahad. Some Malaysians use Minggu and some Indonesians use Ahad.

As a native Turkish speaker, like 95% of these words are in daily Turkish language too. For many of them, we have synonyms. For example, "sebep" and "neden" both mean "reason". Sebep is borrowed from Arabic, neden is from old Turkish (spoken in Middle Asia). Interestingly, people use both of them, and the frequency is almost 50/50.

As a Malay, I do know all of that is derived from Arabic, because I am learning Arabic. One borrowed word that is really interesting is 'pondok' which means hut or shed in Malay which derives from Arabic فندق funduq means hotel. Quite a huge difference in terms of area in my opinion 😃.