With a large network of in-country, professional Indonesian translators, Verbatim Solutions can respond quickly and effectively to your Indonesian language translation needs.
Verbatim Solutions provides professional, high quality Indonesian to English translations and English to Indonesian translations. Our Indonesian translation services will help you maximize your global strategy.
Native Speaking Indonesian Translators
Verbatim Solutions Indonesian translation teams are professional linguists performing translation from English to Indonesian and Indonesian to English for a variety of documents in various industries including:
Aerospace
Automotive
Defense
Desk-top publishing
E-Learning
Energy & power
Finance
Gaming & gambling
Government
Legal
Medical
Multimedia
Packaging
Rich media
Software
Technical
Tourism
Telecommunications
Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia and a remarkable language in several ways. To begin with, only a tiny fraction of the inhabitants of Indonesia speak it as a mother tongue; for most people it is a second language. In a certain sense it is very modern: officially it came into being in 1945, and it is a dynamic language that is constantly absorbing new loanwords. Learning Indonesian can be a rewarding experience for a foreigner, as phonology and grammar are relatively simple. The rudiments that are necessary for basic everyday communication can be picked up in a few weeks. The Indonesian name for the language is Bahasa Indonesia (= literally language of Indonesia), and this name is also sometimes used in English.
Bahasa Indonesia is based on Malay, an Austronesian (or Malayo-Polynesian) language which had been used as a lingua franca in the Indonesian archipelago for centuries, and was elevated to the status of official language with the Indonesian declaration of independence in 1945. It is essentially the same language as Bahasa Malaysia, the official language of Malaysia. It is spoken as a mother tongue only by 7% of the population of Indonesia and 45% of the population of Malaysia, but all together almost 200 million people speak it as a second language with varying degrees of proficiency; it is an essential means of communication in a region with more than 300 native languages, used for business and administrative purposes, at all levels of education and in all mass media.
The Dutch colonization left an imprint on the language that can be seen in words such as polisi (police), kualitas (quality), telepon (telephone), bis (bus), kopi (coffee), rokok (cigarette) or universitas (university). There are also some words derived from Portuguese (sabun, soap; jendela, window), Chinese (pisau, knife or dagger; loteng,
