User:DDG9912

This is basically the new account of DanielWhernchend (and now the main account). See also my userpage at English Wikipedia.

I think that the Indonesian word surat cinta is also becoming a doublespeak for "hate letter" in recent few years. I am working on Appendix:Telugu verbs. I don't know why words for "dandruff" in many languages have obscure etymology. Contrary to the popular belief, colloquial Indonesian is not always very innovative, since it retains old Proto-Malayic final syllable *-eC instead of -aC ( ~, a conservative feature!).

My speech

 * I pronounce as.
 * I frequently lower and  to  and.
 * → *kéitu or *kétu.
 * → variably yo, yodah, *eudah, *edah, yaudah, *ya(d)dah, and dah (a false cognate of ).
 * → *ai.
 * → *jan.
 * I often have liaison, e.g. kulit ubi

How most Indonesians pronounce English words

 * Lack of vowel length.
 * Final obstruent devoicing.
 * Rhotic accent, unlike as in neighbouring Malaysia or Singapore.
 * Yod coalescence, sometimes occuring before.
 * Confusion of and, shared with Dutch English.
 * Occasional omission of plurals, including -s (similar to spoken French), likely due to the lack of plurals common in Indonesian.
 * Confusion of and, shared with Dutch English.
 * Occasional omission of plurals, including -s (similar to spoken French), likely due to the lack of plurals common in Indonesian.
 * Occasional omission of plurals, including -s (similar to spoken French), likely due to the lack of plurals common in Indonesian.

Spelling variations in Indonesian names

 * Use of Dutch digraphs, such as ch, sj, oe, and ie, due to the influence of Van Ophuijsen spelling.
 * Doubled letters, which are actually pronounced as single.
 * Other silent letters, such as h after consonants or in few other cases, t (as in my name ) or c (as in ).
 * Variation between -y- / -w- and -i- / -u-, especially when adjacent to vowels and being word-finally.
 * Eccentric letters.

Other notes on Indonesian names

 * Indonesian modern naming customs have more similarities with those in the Mediterranean basin and the Middle East, particularly southern European and the Levant.
 * The reason why there are only few "very popular" names in Indonesia, it is because many of the younger people have irregular spellings on their names (see above), rendered as distinct names.
 * Southern Romance (incl. Spanish and Italian) diminutive suffixes and  are common in female names.
 * Note that full names are mostly only stressed on the first name. Indonesian names are in fact treated as a single name.
 * is technically a name prefix in Indonesian, if there is such, then the person is called with the following names onwards.

Grammatical notes

 * I think, the lowercase forms of proper nouns (e.g., , ) should be classified as adjectives, since when affixed still remain lowercase ( → ). Please note that these are not used to refer to people, language, nationality, or culture; but instead only for animals, plants, or objects (the example is correct, but orang bali is incorrect).
 * In most European and Central Asian languages (exceptions: Turkish, Dutch, English), there are not just consistently lowercase demonyms, but also lowercase month and day names. Turkish and Dutch usually (but not always) have such month-day names.
 * "No grammatical adjectives in Indonesian" is wrong.

Burmese phonology nowadays

 * is now silent, effectively phonemicizing the checked tone.
 * tends to be pronounced as dental, drifting the original stop equivalent to the alveolar series.

Resources

 * https://archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2693/mode/1up
 * https://www.scribd.com/document/332656453/Compendium-Linguarum-Iranicarum-Schmitt-1989