Travel Indonesia by Mirdan

Lampung refers to an administrative region of Lampung Province and lies in the southern tip of Sumatra island. Today, Lampung comprises many ethnics including native and non-native peoples. Native Lampung is used to group people from  historical background inherit the local culture including language and its alphabet used for communication among Lampung people. The alphabets of native Lampung is under the group alphabets of called Kaganga . Geographically, the use of this group of alphabets were found in Southern part of Sumatera island.  Lampung Script ( Had Lampung) is a form of writing that has a relationship with Pallawa of South India. Various kinds of writing phonetic syllables are vowels as in Arabic characters, using signs fathah on the top row and signs kasrah on the bottom line, but do not use dammah sign on the front row, but rather use the sign in the rear, where each sign has its own name. Had Lampung was influenced by two elements : the Pallaya script...

Indonesia, or the Republic of Indonesia, with around 252 million people, is the world's fourth country. Originally controlled by several Hindu and Buddhist, and later by Islamic kingdoms, the archipelago enticed European spice traders beginning in the 16th century. by the end of th19 century, the country still a colony of the Dutch Administration. Nationalism grew in the early 20th century, after the World War II marked by the unconditional surrender of Japanese to the Allies in the Southeast Asia and the vacuum of foreign powers, this country proclaimed its independence on Augustus 17, 1945 . The declaration of independence was read by Soekarno, accompanied by Hatta , later became the first Predisend nad Vice President, at Jalan Pegangsaan Timur 56, Jakarta. The Declaration of Independence by Soekarno-Hatta on August 17, 1945. The agony under foreign rulers united the suppressed peoples, regardless of ethnics, languages, religions across the region, from the westernmost ...

Geographical Distribution of Local Languages Across Indonesia. About to set foot in Indonesia? then you want to get connected with locals, you better have the idea of how many local languages there are in Indonesia. You will find out how diverse the country from the number of local languages. Stretching from the most western to the  most eastern side, the country is so rich with languages where people of one place speak literally different languages. In fact, local languages in Indonesia are now vanishing.Republika Online reported that there exist 726 local languages in Indonesia. The research on local languages conducted three to four years ago by Indonesian and their fellow researches from foreign countries resulted in different accounts on the numbers, however, the recent data recorded around 726 languages. Out of those, 426 languages successfully mapped, the rests are thought to have no longer found most probably due to dwindling native speakers. Here are 10 regional langu...

Bali language consists of 3 languages ​​namely Bali Alus (main), intermediate language bali, bali coarse language (insult). Examples of the language bali from "eating" for all three languages ​​starting from the most subtle is Nunan, Ngajeng, Medar.The third language is an important factor distinguishing between one caste to another. Because, language Alus (main) typically worn by Brahmans, intermediate language used by Kshatriya and Vaishya, and rough bali language generally used by the Sudra.