Similarities Between Hindi and Indonesian

Despite belonging to different language families, Hindi and Indonesian, have a lot of similar words, due to historical connections. We will showcase some of the commonalities between Indonesian and Hindi which come from the ancient language of Sanskrit. The language challenge will be between Krishnan, a Hindi speaker from India, and Anthony, an Indonesian speaker from Indonesia.

Indonesian (bahasa Indonesia) is a standardized register of Malay and the official language of Indonesia. Indonesia is multi-lingual country and most Indonesians speak another language, however, the Indonesian language has been used as a lingua franca in the archipelago for centuries. Indonesian is also recognized as minority language in East Timor.

Hindi (हिन्दी) is a standardized and Sanskritized register of the Hindustani language. Hindi, written in the Devanagari script, is one of the official languages of India, Hindi is the fourth most-spoken first language in the world, after Mandarin, Spanish and English.

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