Where does “lapan puluh sembilan” come from?
lapan puluh sembilan (Malay) comes from Malay lapan puluh, from Malay puluh, from Proto-Malayic puluh, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian puluq, from Proto-Austronesian puluq — ten.
lapan puluh sembilan (Malay): eighty-nine
Ancestry of “lapan puluh sembilan”, step by step