You think, perhaps, but linguists would beg to differ.

The differences between Indonesian and Malay are mostly on the level of US vs UK differences -- minor differences of spelling, a few dozen different words...

But even most reasonable Indonesians do not believe that they truly speak a different language than Malaysians.

Are there any _true_ differences between the languages?

I think a particularly telling proof is that if I copy the text of an article from the Malay WP and run it through an Indonesian spellchecker, there are 0 mistakes. Hmm.

Mark

On 28/10/05, Stanley W stanley@e-intidata.com wrote:

There is significant difference between Indonesian and Malay language I think.

Also there is no Malay wikisource subdomain right now.

-----Original Message----- From: wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org [mailto:wikipedia-l-bounces@Wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Williamson Sent: Friday, October 28, 2005 14:28 To: wikipedia-l@wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikipedia-l] id.wikisource.org

Here I find a second issue:

I think that Indonesian and Malay meet an equal threshhold to Serbocroatian, except that they don't have the same level of emotions attached.

So, I think there should be a single Malay and Indonesian WS.

On 28/10/05, Stanley W stanley@e-intidata.com wrote:

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Hi, I hereby make a proposal for new wikisource language subdomain (id.wikisource.org) to be created.

Please verify that this proposal have meet the requirements needed.

Thanks

Stanley

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