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Indonesian, a. and n.|ɪndəʊˈniːʃ(ɪ)ən|
[f. Indo-1 + Gr. νῆσ-ος island + -ian.]
a. adj. (a) Of or belonging to the East Indian islands; spec. pertaining to those Malay inhabitants of these islands who approximate to an Indian type. (b) (Also as n.) (Of, relating to, or designating) the western branch of the Malayo-Polynesian family of languages; (c) Of or pertaining to the federal republic of Indonesia.
b. n. (a) An inhabitant of the East Indian islands; spec. a member of this branch of the Malay race. (b) A native or inhabitant of Indonesia.
The national language of Indonesia is now called Bahasa Indonesia.
1850J. R. Logan in Jrnl. Indian Archipelago IV. 254, I prefer the purely geographical term Indonesia..for the Indian Islands or the Indian Archipelago. We thus get Indonesian for Indian Archipelagian or Archipelagic, and Indonesians for Indian Archipelagians or Indian Islanders. Ibid. 441 The partially negro character which the Polynesian or Indonesian community has acquired. Ibid. 446 In the Indonesian languages everything beyond the mere surface resolved itself into their phonology. 1851Ibid. V. 214 In W. Indonesian the final vowels and consonants are in general in about equal proportions. 1881Nature XXIII. 249 That fair element in Malaysia which Dr. Hamy proposes to group as Indonesians. 1891Athenæum 10 Oct. 485/1 Interesting aspects or phenomena in Indonesian ethnology and folk-lore. 1895Edin. Rev. Oct. 516 The dark Indonesian race. Ibid., The Malagasy are Indonesians. 1932W. L. Graff Lang. iii. 151 In Indonesian the infix -um- gives the radical a verbal active meaning. 1933L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 71 The Malayan (or Indonesian) branch includes Malay... Further, it embraces the languages of the great islands of the East, such as Formosan, Javanese, [etc.]. 1948D. Wehl Birth of Indonesia xii. 177 The Netherlands Government..could not but feel that they had been interrupted in the very act of bringing to birth the Indonesian Commonwealth. Ibid., Two years of conflict between the Netherlands and the Indonesian Republic had ended. 1950Theimer & Campbell Encycl. World Politics 228/1 Sovereignty was transferred to the Indonesian government on 27 December 1949. 1958Listener 4 Dec. 914/1 The Indonesians..write their common language, Bahasa Malay, in Roman letters. 1968M. Caldwell Indonesia i. 23 The decision to promote a national language—Bahasa Indonesia—was taken at an All-Indonesia Youth Congress in 1928, and thereafter enthusiastically forwarded by Indonesian intellectuals and leaders. 1973‘I. Drummond’ Jaws of Watchdog iii. 35 He found himself dancing with the little wife of an Indonesian diplomat... [He] stayed with his Indonesian until ten. 1973D. May Laughter in Djakarta i. 13 He had worked furiously..learning Indonesian. |