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This is a concise and userfriendly introduction to the Indonesian languageThis concise book aims to introduce the reader to the Indonesian language not by creating a course, with grammar and exercises, but by describing it from various points of view, such as telling what it is related to and how it has developed, and on this basis saying where some of its words originate, as a means of familiarization with some common examples. After that, the description moves on to talk about the kinds of words one wold expect to meet, and how they can be put together as sentences, before providing a few examples of journalistic prose as well as some more literary specimens, in order to give a feeling for the language. Welcome to Indonesian includes:Chapter 1: What is Indonesian?Chapter 2: Bahasa Indonesia as the National LanguageChapter 3: A Historical OverviewChapter 4: The Development of Modern IndonesianChapter 5: Indonesian and MalaysianChapter 6: The colloquial Dimension, Influence of Dialek JakartaChapter 7: What is Indonesian Related to?Chapter 9: Loanwords in Indonesian Chapter 10: The Indonesian WordChapter 11: The Indonesian SentenceChapter 12: Journalistic ProseChapter 13: A Literary DimensionSuggestions for Further ReadingGlossary of Indonesian Words