Possessive pronouns in indonesian language

Abstract

Indonesian, which is called bahasa Indonesia by its speakers, is classified as a Malayic language of Malayo-Polynesian branch of Austronesian language family [2]. It is spoken mainly in the Republic of Indonesia, as the sole official and national language and as the common language for hundreds of ethnic groups living there. In Indonesia 22.8 million people speak Indonesian as their first language, while more than 140 million speak it as their second language. It is over 80% cognate with Standard Malay, which is spoken in Malaysia, Brunei, and Singapore[2]. Indonesian is an agglutinative language with a rich affixation system, including a variety of prefixes, suffixes, circumfixes, and reduplication. In general, grammatical relations are only distinguished in terms of word order. Indonesian is a diglossic language. The high variety of Indonesian, also called bahasa resmi ‘official language’ or bahasa baku ‘standard language’. This work will analyse examples in these two types of language forms. This article analyse the means of denoting possessiveness and possessive pronouns in Indonesian language.