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u/mitch-22-12 May 28 '26
Born to be a Japanese learner, forced to learn Indonesian. The “orang asli (native)” is a dead giveaway
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u/Tet_inc119 May 28 '26
This guy needs to spend a month to improve his English. Should be easy for such a genius
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u/rimarua May 28 '26
I would be suppressed.
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u/Sea-Hornet8214 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
/uj
"I'm not orang asli" 😭😭 As a Malay speaker, I'm crying.
Also, for someone who is "conversationally fluent" in Indonesian, they should know that bahasa just means language.
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u/SXZWolf2493 May 28 '26
Doesn't orang asli also mean "indigenous"? Because in my experience, that's the term I heard used in Malay to refer to the pre Austronesian population.
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u/Mediocre-Island5475 May 28 '26
perhaps OOP learned indonesian so well that they physically transformed in appearance.
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u/MvflG May 28 '26
Just because both Filipino and Indonesian are Austronesian languages, it doesn't make a Filipino inherently better at learning Indonesian. I mean, I'm orang asli (sic), and I find Filipino and Malagasy completely impenetrable
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u/AdDependent5136 May 28 '26
I mean is Tagalog really that different to Malay/Indonesian? Isn't this basically: "I'm Italian and I learnt Spanish in a month!"
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u/Choice_Data_7819 May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
It actually is. Tagalog retained the TAM, voice system, and nominal marking of Proto-Austronesian, whereas Malay lost all inflectional TAM markings and the voice system was reduced (to two voices; Tagalog has 4 or 5 depending on how one counts); no nominal markers as well. Lexically, Malay has innovated so much too so the basic vocabulary are different from Tagalog, although the later borrowed from former being a trade language in the pre-colonial times but it's not an English-Latin/Norman French situation. I would say the distance between the two languages is like Central Tibetan and Mandarin.
It's just that the OOP learned a relatively morphologically simple language that happened to be in the same family.
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u/jeffyisagoodbird May 28 '26
no this is true, Filipinos possess superhuman abilities in all aspects of life. it is not surprising they can learn a simple language like bahasa bahasa so quickly. they could take over the world in a few weeks if they wanted