The Indonesian language and its potential to become an international language
- DOI
- 10.2991/icalc-18.2019.40How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- Bahasa Indonesia, standardised language, second language, international language
- Abstract
The potential shown by the Indonesian language in less than a century for a neutral lingua franca is continually progressing, not only for the nation alone but it is indeed becoming more popular abroad thanks to Darmasiswa and other Indonesian scholarship programs offered to foreigners. Besides the cited phenomena that has seen an increase in the use of the Indonesian language all around the world, there are many other factors to consider in the potential success of Indonesian as an international language used not only by locals but also by foreigners either for daily conversations, for academic purposes, medical or any other needs inside and outside of Indonesia. The present paper approaches this phenomenon from a sociolinguistic perspective in field.
- Copyright
- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - León Gilberto Medellin Lopez PY - 2019/02 DA - 2019/02 TI - The Indonesian language and its potential to become an international language BT - Proceedings of the Third International Conference of Arts, Language and Culture (ICALC 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 278 EP - 280 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icalc-18.2019.40 DO - 10.2991/icalc-18.2019.40 ID - Lopez2019/02 ER -