Where does “bahasa asing” come from?

bahasa asing (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian Bahasa, from Malay bahasa, from Sanskrit भाषा, from Sanskrit भाष.

bahasa asing (Indonesian): foreign language

Definitions

  1. foreign language

Ancestry of “bahasa asing”, step by step

bahasa asing traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian Bahasa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1IndonesianBahasalanguage
2Malaybahasalanguage; decorum, appropriate social behavior
3Sanskritभाषाspeech, language; any Prakrit dialect or a...
4Sanskritभाष—

via Indonesian asing

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianasingforeign
2Malayasingforeign
Every word from Sanskrit भाष →Every word from Sanskrit भाषा →Every word from Malay bahasa →