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by decode
2902 days ago
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While I agree with you in general, a surprising number of grammatical features that make many other languages difficult to learn are missing in Indonesian. Some examples: No grammatical gender No plural forms of nouns No grammatical case No verb conjugations No verb tenses In addition, written Indonesian uses the Latin alphabet and has a very consistent phonemic orthography. Of course, it also has some more complicated features, like formal and informal pronouns. But it still seems fair to me to say that it is grammatically simpler than many (most?) other spoken languages. |
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Indonesian verbs lack the tense, number and person agreement marking that is commonly found in European languages, but they have a lot of derivational morphology including complex voice and valency operations (Austronesian alignment[0], causatives, applicatives etc.)
Indonesian also has noun classifiers like Mandarin which have to be memorised like grammatical genders.
[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_alignment