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