Where does “bahasa buatan” come from?

bahasa buatan (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian buatan, from Indonesian buat, from Malay buat, from Proto-Malayic buat, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian buhat.

bahasa buatan (Indonesian): artificial language

Definitions

  1. artificial language

Ancestry of “bahasa buatan”, step by step

bahasa buatan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian buatan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianbuatancreation
2Indonesianbuatto make, create
3Malaybuatto do; to make, to do; for
4Proto-Malayicbuat—
5Proto-Malayo-Polynesianbuhat—

via Indonesian Bahasa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1IndonesianBahasalanguage
2Malaybahasalanguage; decorum, appropriate social behavior
3Sanskritभाषाspeech, language; any Prakrit dialect or a...
4Sanskritभाष—
Every word from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian buhat →Every word from Proto-Malayic buat →Every word from Malay buat →