Where does “bahasa ibunda” come from?

bahasa ibunda (Malay) comes from Malay bahasa, from Sanskrit भाषा, from Sanskrit भाष.

bahasa ibunda (Malay): mother tongue, native language

Definitions

  1. mother tongue, native language

Ancestry of “bahasa ibunda”, step by step

bahasa ibunda traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Malay bahasa

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

via Malay ibunda

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Malayibundamother
2Malayibumother; ma'am, missus; you
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