Jakarta Indonesian

E583376

Jakarta Indonesian is an urban variety of Indonesian shaped by the speech of Jakarta’s multiethnic population, characterized by informal expressions, distinctive slang, and strong Betawi influence.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf colloquial register
urban dialect
variety of Indonesian language
associatedWith Betawi ethnic group NERFINISHED
Indonesian urban slang
Jakarta youth culture
contrastWith Standard Indonesian NERFINISHED
country Indonesia
developedFrom contact between Standard Indonesian and Betawi Malay
hasAlternativeName Bahasa Jakarta NERFINISHED
Jakartan Indonesian NERFINISHED
hasFeature code-switching with English
code-switching with Standard Indonesian
distinctive slang vocabulary
frequent clipping of words
phonological simplification in casual speech
reduced morphology compared to Standard Indonesian
use of Betawi-origin particles
use of expressive interjections
use of first-person pronoun ‘gue’
use of second-person pronoun ‘lu’
use of sentence-final particles like ‘dong’ and ‘deh’
influencedBy Arabic loanwords
Betawi language NERFINISHED
Chinese Indonesian speech
Dutch loanwords
English loanwords
Jakarta Malay NERFINISHED
Javanese language
Sundanese language
languageFamily Austronesian languages
notOfficialLanguageOf Indonesia NERFINISHED
region Greater Jakarta metropolitan area NERFINISHED
register colloquial
informal
spokenIn Jakarta NERFINISHED
status informal spoken norm in Jakarta
non-standard variety of Indonesian
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
timePeriod 20th century emergence
usedAs lingua franca among Jakarta residents
usedBy Jakarta popular culture
multiethnic population of Jakarta
urban youth in Jakarta
usedIn Indonesian films set in Jakarta
Indonesian social media
Jakarta street interactions
Jakarta television shows
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Betawi Malay hasInfluenceOn Jakarta Indonesian
Manado Malay distinctFrom Jakarta Indonesian