Where does “bahasa mati” come from?

bahasa mati (Indonesian) comes from Indonesian mati, from Malay mati, from Proto-Malayic mati, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian (m-)atay, from Proto-Austronesian aCay.

bahasa mati (Indonesian): dead language, a language which no longer has any native speakers

Definitions

  1. dead language, a language which no longer has any native speakers

Ancestry of “bahasa mati”, step by step

bahasa mati traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian mati

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianmatidead; turned off; Unable to emit power; flat;...
2Malaymatidead no longer alive, death, deceased
3Proto-Malayicmatito die
4Proto-Malayo-Polynesian(m-)atayto die
5Proto-AustronesianaCay—

via Indonesian Bahasa

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