Bhāṣā

Bhāṣā (or one of its derived forms) is the word for "language" in many South and Southeast Asian languages, which derives from the Sanskrit word bhāṣā (भाषा) meaning "speech" or "spoken language". In transliteration from Sanskrit or Pali, bhasa may also be spelled bhasa, basa, or phasa.

Language names

Usage

The word "Bahasa" in English is sometimes used to refer specifically to the Malay language (especially its Indonesian variety), usually by Western expatriates and their English-speaking Indonesian-Malaysian associates. This usage is considered incorrect.[1] When Malaysian or Indonesian speakers refer to other languages, the non-capitalized word "bahasa" ("language") is used; for example, English and Italian are called bahasa Inggris and bahasa Italia respectively.

gollark: That just immediately halts.
gollark: Oh, fun idea, add 16 more registers and make one of them contain a value which determines how much to increment the program counter by each instruction.
gollark: It does some random stuff and prints out debug info.
gollark: I made a LOØÞ:```04 b0 00 0804 10 01 ff04 e0 ff 0203 e0 a0 0004 de 03 0102 c0 a0 0002 dd a0 00ff 00 00 0004 aa 00 0107 ab 00 00```
gollark: Hmm, apparently my JLT instruction is not JLTing.

See also
  • Basa (disambiguation) § Languages

References
  1. "Bahasa Indonesia: The Indonesian Language," George Quinn, Australian National University


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