Jakarta Indonesian

E583376

Jakarta Indonesian is an urban variety of Indonesian shaped by the speech of Jakarta’s multiethnic population, characterized by informal expressions, distinctive slang, and strong Betawi influence.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Jakarta Indonesian canonical 3
Jakartan Indonesian 2
Bahasa Jakarta 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf colloquial register
urban dialect
variety of Indonesian language
associatedWith Betawi ethnic group
linked to: Betawi people

Indonesian urban slang
Jakarta youth culture
contrastWith Standard Indonesian
linked to: Indonesian
country Indonesia
developedFrom contact between Standard Indonesian and Betawi Malay
hasAlternativeName Bahasa Jakarta
linked to: Jakarta Indonesian

Jakartan Indonesian
linked to: Jakarta Indonesian
hasFeature code-switching with English
code-switching with Standard Indonesian
distinctive slang vocabulary
frequent clipping of words
phonological simplification in casual speech
reduced morphology compared to Standard Indonesian
use of Betawi-origin particles
use of expressive interjections
use of first-person pronoun ‘gue’
use of second-person pronoun ‘lu’
use of sentence-final particles like ‘dong’ and ‘deh’
influencedBy Arabic loanwords
Betawi language
Chinese Indonesian speech
Dutch loanwords
English loanwords
Jakarta Malay
linked to: Betawi Malay

Javanese language
Sundanese language
languageFamily Austronesian languages
notOfficialLanguageOf Indonesia
region Greater Jakarta metropolitan area
linked to: Greater Jakarta
register colloquial
informal
spokenIn Jakarta
status informal spoken norm in Jakarta
non-standard variety of Indonesian
subfamily Malayo-Polynesian languages
timePeriod 20th century emergence
usedAs lingua franca among Jakarta residents
usedBy Jakarta popular culture
multiethnic population of Jakarta
urban youth in Jakarta
usedIn Indonesian films set in Jakarta
Indonesian social media
Jakarta street interactions
Jakarta television shows
writingSystem Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Betawi Malay hasInfluenceOn Jakarta Indonesian
Manado Malay distinctFrom Jakarta Indonesian
Betawi language closelyRelatedTo Jakartan Indonesian
linked to: Jakarta Indonesian
Jakarta Indonesian hasAlternativeName Bahasa Jakarta
linked to: Jakarta Indonesian
Jakarta Indonesian hasAlternativeName Jakartan Indonesian
linked to: Jakarta Indonesian
influenced by Malay appliesToLanguage Jakarta Indonesian