34-477: (Redirected from MAI ) [REDACTED] Look up mai or Mai in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mai , or MAI , may refer to: Names [ edit ] Mai (Chinese surname) Mai (Vietnamese surname) Mai (name) Mai (singer) , J-Pop singer Places [ edit ] Chiang Mai , largest city in northern Thailand Ma-i ,
68-762: A character from Avatar: The Last Airbender Mai, month May in several Indonesian local languages , including Banjarese and Minangkabau Mai FM , a New Zealand radio network "Mai", a song by Josh Groban song on his album Awake Live mai, the ISO 639 code for the Maithili language spoken in India and Nepal Multilateral Agreement on Investment , a proposed OECD treaty for which negotiations were abandoned in 1998 The Mai, fictional supernatural beings in The Nine Lives of Chloe King Mai Minakami, one of
102-544: A character from Avatar: The Last Airbender Mai, month May in several Indonesian local languages , including Banjarese and Minangkabau Mai FM , a New Zealand radio network "Mai", a song by Josh Groban song on his album Awake Live mai, the ISO 639 code for the Maithili language spoken in India and Nepal Multilateral Agreement on Investment , a proposed OECD treaty for which negotiations were abandoned in 1998 The Mai, fictional supernatural beings in The Nine Lives of Chloe King Mai Minakami, one of
136-469: A few to a few thousands of people. These include small languages such as Benggoi, Mombum and Towei. Other languages are spoken at the regional level to connect various ethnicities. For this reason, these languages are known as regional lingua francas (RLFs). According to Subhan Zein, there are at least 43 RLFs in Indonesia, categorized into two types: Malayic RLFs and Non-Malayic RLFs. The former refers to
170-510: A film by Trấn Thành Mai (1989 film) , a Bhojpuri film Mai (2013 film) , a Bollywood film featuring Asha Bhosle Mai (TV series) , a 2022 Netflix India Original series Other uses [ edit ] Mai Shiranui , a character appearing in the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series. Mai, a pronouncing dubbed name for main character in Jungle de Ikou! Mai,
204-401: A film by Trấn Thành Mai (1989 film) , a Bhojpuri film Mai (2013 film) , a Bollywood film featuring Asha Bhosle Mai (TV series) , a 2022 Netflix India Original series Other uses [ edit ] Mai Shiranui , a character appearing in the Fatal Fury and The King of Fighters series. Mai, a pronouncing dubbed name for main character in Jungle de Ikou! Mai,
238-480: A group of regional lingua francas that are thought of as indigenised varieties of Malay or Indonesian. These include such languages as Ambon Malay , Banjarese and Papuan Malay . The latter refers to regional lingua francas that are not associated with Malay or Indonesian, including Biak , Iban and Onin . As early as the seventh century AD, the natives of the archipelago began an intense period of trade with people from China , India and other countries. This
272-615: A lingua franca , and sign languages . The official language of Indonesia is Indonesian (locally known as bahasa Indonesia ), a standardised form of Malay , which serves as the lingua franca of the archipelago. According to the 2020 census, over 97% of Indonesians are fluent in Indonesian. The vocabulary of Indonesian borrows heavily from regional languages of Indonesia, such as Javanese , Sundanese and Minangkabau , as well as from Dutch , Sanskrit , Portuguese , Arabic and more recently English . The Indonesian language
306-766: A long history as a written language and has been rendered in Brahmic , Arabic , and Latin scripts. Javanese has been written in the Pallava script of South India, as well as their derivative (known as Kawi and Javanese ), in an Arabic alphabet called pegon that incorporates Javanese sounds, and in the Latin script. Chinese characters have never been used to write Indonesian languages, although Indonesian place-names, personal names, and names of trade goods appear in reports and histories written for China 's imperial courts. The following texts are translations of Article 1 of
340-485: A native language is Javanese , primarily by the Javanese people in the central and eastern parts of Java Island, as well as across many other islands due to migration. Languages in Indonesia are classified into nine categories: national language , locally used indigenous languages , regional lingua francas, foreign and additional languages , heritage languages , languages in the religious domain, English as
374-786: A pre-Hispanic Philippine state Mai, Non Sung , Thailand Organisations [ edit ] Manufacturers Association of Israel , an Israeli business organization Marina Abramović Institute , a performance art organization Market for Alternative Investment , a stock market for small/medium enterprises in Thailand Montreal Arts Interculturels , a multidisciplinary cultural organization in Montreal, Canada Moscow Aviation Institute , an engineering and aviation university in Russia Motorsports Association of India ,
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#1732790242996408-550: A pre-Hispanic Philippine state Mai, Non Sung , Thailand Organisations [ edit ] Manufacturers Association of Israel , an Israeli business organization Marina Abramović Institute , a performance art organization Market for Alternative Investment , a stock market for small/medium enterprises in Thailand Montreal Arts Interculturels , a multidisciplinary cultural organization in Montreal, Canada Moscow Aviation Institute , an engineering and aviation university in Russia Motorsports Association of India ,
442-400: Is defined as "The only fluent users (if any) are older than child-bearing age." In January 2013, Indonesia's then minister of education and culture, Muhammad Nuh, affirmed that the teaching of local languages as school subjects would be part of the national education curriculum. Muhammad stated that much of the public worry about the teaching of local languages being left out of the curriculum
476-505: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages mai [REDACTED] Look up mai or Mai in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mai , or MAI , may refer to: Names [ edit ] Mai (Chinese surname) Mai (Vietnamese surname) Mai (name) Mai (singer) , J-Pop singer Places [ edit ] Chiang Mai , largest city in northern Thailand Ma-i ,
510-481: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Languages of Indonesia Indonesia is home to over 700 living languages spoken across its extensive archipelago. This significant linguistic variety constitutes approximately 10% of the world’s total languages, positioning Indonesia as the second most linguistically diverse nation globally, following Papua New Guinea . The majority of these languages belong to
544-410: Is misplaced, and that the new curriculum will be conveyed to them. The population numbers given below are of native speakers , excepting the figure for Indonesian, which counts its total speakers. The total population of the country was 237.6 million in 2010. Several prominent languages spoken in Indonesia sorted by language family are: There are many additional small families and isolates among
578-485: Is primarily used in commerce, administration, education and the media, and thus nearly every Indonesian speaks the language to varying degrees of proficiency. Most Indonesians speak other languages , such as Javanese , as their first language. This makes plurilingualism a norm in Indonesia. Indonesia recognizes only a single national language, and indigenous languages are recognized at the regional level, although policies vary from one region to another. For example, in
612-597: The Austronesian language family, prevalent in the western and central regions of Indonesia, including languages such as Acehnese , Sundanese , and Buginese . In contrast, the eastern regions, particularly Papua and the Maluku Islands , are home to over 270 Papuan languages , which are distinct from the Austronesian family and represent a unique linguistic heritage. The language most widely spoken as
646-571: The Papuan languages . Below is a full list of Papuan language families spoken in Indonesia, following Palmer, et al. (2018): There are at least 2.5 million sign language users across the country, although official report only shows less than 50,000. Sign language users are often ridiculed and stigmatized. Indonesian languages are generally not rendered in native-invented systems, but in scripts devised by speakers of other languages, that is, Tamil , Arabic , and Latin . Malay , for example, has
680-512: The Special Region of Yogyakarta , the Javanese language is the region's official language along with Indonesian . Javanese is the most spoken indigenous language, with native speakers constituting 31.8% of the total population of Indonesia (as of 2010). Javanese speakers are predominantly located in the central to eastern parts of Java, and there are also sizable numbers in most provinces. The next most widely spoken regional languages in
714-566: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the languages of Indonesia. Alle mensen worden vrij en gelijk in waardigheid en rechten geboren, ze zijn begiftigd met rede en geweten en behoren tegenover elkaar te handelen in een geest van broederschap. 人人生而自由,在尊严和权利上一律平等。他们赋有理性和良心,并应以兄弟关系的精神互相对待。 Rénrén shēng ér zìyóu, zài zūnyán hé quánlì shàng yīlù píngděng. Tāmen fùyǒu lǐxìng hé liángxīn, bìng yīng yǐ xiōngdì guānxì de jīngshén hùxiāng duìdài. All people are born free and have
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#1732790242996748-640: The 3 main characters of Nichijou See also [ edit ] Maij All pages with titles containing Mai All pages with titles beginning with Mai Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mai . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mai&oldid=1208590907 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
782-640: The 3 main characters of Nichijou See also [ edit ] Maij All pages with titles containing Mai All pages with titles beginning with Mai Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Mai . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mai&oldid=1208590907 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
816-576: The FIA arm of Indian Motorsports Science and Technology [ edit ] Machine augmented intelligence , use of technology to amplify and empower human thought and consciousness Mean annual increment , a measure of the average growth per year a tree or stand of trees has exhibited at a specified age Multiple Access Interference, a type of interference that occurs in code-division multiple access (CDMA) systems Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection , an atypical mycobacterial infection that
850-527: The FIA arm of Indian Motorsports Science and Technology [ edit ] Machine augmented intelligence , use of technology to amplify and empower human thought and consciousness Mean annual increment , a measure of the average growth per year a tree or stand of trees has exhibited at a specified age Multiple Access Interference, a type of interference that occurs in code-division multiple access (CDMA) systems Mycobacterium avium-intracellulare infection , an atypical mycobacterial infection that
884-543: The categorization has been put into question. Scholars such as Lowenberg argue that English is best seen as an additional language . Meanwhile, Zein argues that English in Indonesia is best categorized as a lingua franca , an argument parallel with Kirkpatrick's contention on the use of English as a lingua franca in the broader ASEAN context. Other languages, such as Arabic , Chinese , French , German , Japanese , Korean , Russian , Portuguese and Spanish , are non-native to Indonesia. These languages are included in
918-400: The country are Sundanese , local Malay , Madurese and Minangkabau . A sense of Indonesian nationhood exists alongside strong regional identities. There are hundreds of indigenous languages spoken in Indonesia. Most of them are locally used indigenous languages, a category of languages referring to those spoken at the local, regional level, spoken by a small number of people, ranging from
952-682: The country. A small number of heritage language speakers speak Arabic and Dutch . Despite the Dutch presence in Indonesia for almost 350 years (parts of Indonesia were ruled by the Dutch East India Company and the whole of modern Indonesia was in the Dutch East Indies ) the Dutch language has no official status in Indonesia. The small minority that can speak the language fluently are either educated members of
986-434: The educational curriculum and may be categorized as either foreign or additional languages, depending on the instrumental function of the languages, length and types of exposure, as well as the wide-ranging motivations of the speakers or learners who use and or learn them. There are 726 languages spoken across the Indonesian archipelago in 2009 (dropped from 742 languages in 2007), the second largest multilingual population in
1020-417: The oldest generation, or employed in the legal profession, as certain law codes are still only available in Dutch. English has historically been categorized as the first foreign language in Indonesia. However, increasing exposure to English, the decreasing influence of native-speaker norms in the country and the prevalent use of English as a lingua franca in the broader context such as ASEAN means that
1054-577: The world after Papua New Guinea . Indonesian Papua, which is adjacent to Papua New Guinea, has the most languages in Indonesia. Based on the Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale classification used by Ethnologue (formerly the Summer Institute of Linguistics ), 63 languages are dying (shown in red on the bar chart, subdivided into Moribund and Nearly Extinct, or Dormant), which
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1088-464: Was a common cause of wasting and death in the early AIDS Crisis Transport [ edit ] MAI, the National Rail code for Maidenhead railway station in the county of Berkshire, UK Marine Accident Investigation , investigation of shipping accidents Myanmar Airways International , an airline from Myanmar (Burma) Film and television [ edit ] Mai (2024 film) ,
1122-401: Was a common cause of wasting and death in the early AIDS Crisis Transport [ edit ] MAI, the National Rail code for Maidenhead railway station in the county of Berkshire, UK Marine Accident Investigation , investigation of shipping accidents Myanmar Airways International , an airline from Myanmar (Burma) Film and television [ edit ] Mai (2024 film) ,
1156-469: Was followed by a long period of colonization by the Dutch and Portugal colonials. The outcome of these processes has been the development of a group of heritage languages spoken by Arab , Chinese , Eurasian and Dutch descendants, among others. Chinese linguistic varieties such as Hokkien , Hakka , and Mandarin are the most common heritage languages. Tamil is also spoken among majority of Indians in
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