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by curtis 2908 days ago
> Claims about the relative simplicity or complexity of different languages are rarely grounded in actual linguistic evidence.

I don't think that's justified in the case of Bahasa Indonesia, or indeed any language which is more widely used as a second language than as a first. And it's pretty much a dialect of Malay, which also has a long history as a second language used for trade.