basantara
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Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Blend of bahasa (“language”) + perantara (“intermediary”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
basantara (first-person possessive basantaraku, second-person possessive basantaramu, third-person possessive basantaranya)
- lingua franca
- Synonyms: bahasa dagang, bahasa pasar
Further reading[edit]
- “basantara” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Javanese[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- ꦧꦱꦤ꧀ꦠꦫ (basantara)
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from portmanteau in Old Javanese basantara (“lingua franca”); ꦧꦱ (basa, “language”) + ꦲꦤ꧀ꦠꦫ (antara, “intermediary”).
Noun[edit]
basantara
- (linguistics) lingua franca, a common language used by people of diverse backgrounds to communicate with one another, often a basic form of speech with simplified grammar, particularly, one not the first language of any of its speakers.
Categories:
- Indonesian blends
- Indonesian 4-syllable words
- Indonesian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Indonesian lemmas
- Indonesian nouns
- Requests for plural forms in Indonesian entries
- Javanese terms inherited from Old Javanese
- Javanese terms derived from Old Javanese
- Old Javanese compound terms
- Javanese lemmas
- Javanese nouns
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