Back البتاوية Arabic Basa Betawi BAN Basa Betawi BJN Basa Betawi BUG Betawian malaiji Finnish Betawi (langue) French Lingua betawi Galician Betawi jezik Croatian Bahasa Betawi ID Pagsasao a Betawi ILO
| Betawi | |
|---|---|
| basè Betawi, basa Betawi | |
| Native to | Indonesia
Australia |
| Region | Jakarta West Java Banten Cocos (Keeling) Islands |
| Ethnicity | |
Native speakers | 5 million (2000 census)[1] |
Malay-based creole
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | bew |
| Glottolog | beta1252 |
Betawi, also known as Betawi Malay, Jakartan Malay, or Batavian Malay, is the spoken language of the Betawi people in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is the native language of perhaps 5 million people; a precise number is difficult to determine due to the vague use of the name.
Betawi Malay is a popular informal language in contemporary Indonesia, used as the base of Indonesian slang and commonly spoken in Jakarta TV soap operas and some animated cartoons (e.g. Adit Sopo Jarwo).[2] The name "Betawi" stems from Batavia, the official name of Jakarta during the era of the Dutch East Indies. Colloquial Jakarta Indonesian, a vernacular form of Indonesian that has spread from Jakarta into large areas of Java and replaced existing Malay dialects, has its roots in Betawi Malay. According to Uri Tadmor, there is no clear border distinguishing Colloquial Jakarta Indonesian from Betawi Malay.[3]
- ^ Betawi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Bowden, John. Towards an account of information structure in Colloquial Jakarta Indonesian. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Information Structure of Austronesian Languages, 10 April 2014. Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. p. 194.
- ^ Kozok, Uli (2016), Indonesian Native Speakers – Myth and Reality (PDF), p. 15
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