Where does “bahasa tingkat rendah” come from?

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

bahasa tingkat rendah (Indonesian): low-level language

Definitions

  1. low-level language

Ancestry of “bahasa tingkat rendah”, step by step

bahasa tingkat rendah traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.

via Indonesian Bahasa

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

via Indonesian tingkat

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesiantingkatlevel
2Indonesiantinggihigh, tall
3Malaytinggihigh
4Sanskritतुङ्गprominent, erect, lofty, high; an elevation,...

via Indonesian rendah

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Indonesianrendahlow
2Malayrendahlow (height)
3Proto-Mon-Khmer*daap
Every word from Sanskrit भाष