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Bahasa

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Bahasa, bhasa, basa, or phasa is the word for "language" in many Asian languages, which derives
from the Sanskrit word भाषा bhāṣā "speech, spoken language". In many modern languages in South
Asia and Southeast Asia which have been influenced by Sanskrit or Pali, bahasa and cognate terms
are used to mean "language" in general.
The term Bahasa is sometimes mistakenly used in reference to
the Indonesian and Malaysian varieties of the Malay language.

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