Bahasan.

1952 Amer. Jrnl. Sociol. 58 23/1 The Indonesian word for culture..is..a deliberate creation—as is much of the entire national Indonesian language (Bahassa Indonesia)—of contemporary nationalism.

1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 130 Malay... Now adopted, under the name Bahasa Indonesia, as the official tongue of Indonesia.

1955 D. Woodman Republic of Indonesia xiv. 297 In the local schools provincial languages will continue to be taught but Bahasa Indonesia is now compulsory for them all.

1958 Listener 4 Dec. 914/1 The Indonesians..write their common language, Bahasa Malay, in Roman letters.

1967 Tenggara (Univ. Malaya) i. 112 The making of Malay as the official language of Indonesia was solemnly pledged by Indonesian youths in the famous Sumpah Pemuda of 28th October, 1928. This pledge taken at the Youths' Congress was also responsible for the renaming of Malay as spoken in Indonesia as Bahasa Indonesia.

1969 Malaysia Year Bk. xiii. 268 It [sc. radio News Division] introduced master bulletins in Bahasa Malaysia progressively as from 1967.

1970 Sruth (Inverness) 16 Apr. 2/1 UNESCO has said this about the revival of Irish in Eire: ‘It is clearly silly and a waste of time to scold the Irish, for instance, for reviving their ancient tongue, or the Indonesians for adopting Bahasa in preference to a European language of wide diffusion.’

1972 Straits Times (Malaysia) 4 May 12/1 (advt.) Working knowledge of Chinese and Bahasa Malaysia is essential.

1974 Language Sci. Aug. 17/2 Since 1928, when Malay was adopted as the national language and given the name of Bahasa Indonesia, regional languages with all their dialects have continued to survive.

1980 Eng. World-wide 1 i. 99 This is still used..if at least one of the participants in a speech situation has not been educated in English or..Bahasa Malaysia.