Where does “dua puluh lapan” come from?
dua puluh lapan (Malay) comes from Malay dua puluh, from Proto-Malayic dua(ʔ) puluh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian duha puluq, from Proto-Austronesian duSa puluq.
dua puluh lapan (Malay): twenty-eight
Ancestry of “dua puluh lapan”, step by step