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The Indonesian Alphabet
Salim 2005 © Linguanaut.com
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About 30 million people speak Indonesian as their first language and 140 million speak it as a second language. Indonesian has the same number of letters as English. Most of them sound like English too with some exceptions; the table below shows it all:
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Letter |
Pronunciation |
Examples |
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a |
a |
a as in "apple" never as in "able" |
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b |
be |
same as in English |
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c |
ce |
c as in the word "Indonesian" |
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d |
de |
as in the word "danish" |
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e |
e |
as in the word "learn" sometimes as in "bet" |
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f |
ef |
like the English standalone f |
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g |
ge |
always as in the word "gold" never as in the word "german" |
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h |
ha |
just like English, but never silent like in the word "honor" |
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i |
i |
ee like in "sweet" |
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j |
je |
as in "Job" |
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k |
ka |
regular "k" but not aspirated |
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l |
el |
same as in English |
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m |
em |
same as in English |
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n |
en |
same as in English |
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o |
o |
as in "over" or "drop" |
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p |
pe |
same as in English but not aspirated |
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q |
ki |
same as in English |
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r |
er |
same as in the rolled Spanish "r" |
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s |
es |
same as in English |
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t |
te |
as in English but not aspirated |
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u |
u |
as in "oo" |
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v |
fe |
more like "f" than "v" |
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w |
we |
same as in English |
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x |
eks |
same as in English |
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y |
ye |
same as in English |
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z |
zet |
same as in English |
In addition to the letters above Indonesian has some more compound letters:
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ng |
eng |
Like in “hanging” softly. Another compound similar to the “ng”, is the “ngg” with allows us to pronounce it the hard way as “bingo” |
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ny |
nye |
Similar to the “n” in the Spanish “mañana”, |
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kh |
kha |
From Arabic, sounds like the Scottish “loch” or the Spanish jota. |
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sy |
sya |
From Arabic like “shield” |
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