Where does “bahasa dagang” come from?

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

bahasa dagang (Indonesian): trade language

Definitions

  1. trade language

Ancestry of “bahasa dagang”, step by step

bahasa dagang 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 dagang

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesiandagangtrade
2Malaydagang—
Every word from Sanskrit भाष →Every word from Sanskrit भाषा →Every word from Malay bahasa →