The Indonesian Language

• Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia, spoken by over 230 million people.
• It is a standardized form of Malay and serves as a lingua franca across the Indonesian archipelago.
• Indonesian uses the Latin alphabet and has absorbed many loanwords from Dutch, Portuguese, and Sanskrit.

About Burwood

Burwood is a suburb in the inner-west of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia 12 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district and is the administrative centre for the local government area of Burwood Council. Burwood Heights is a separate suburb to the south. The Appian Way is a street in Burwood, known for its architecturally designed Federation-style homes.

Archaeological evidence indicates people were living in the Sydney area for at least 11,000 years. This long association had led to a harmonious relationship between the indigenous inhabitants and their environment, which was interrupted by the arrival of the British in 1788.

The European desire to cultivate the land aided and abetted by a smallpox epidemic that forced the local people, the Wangal clan, away from their source of food and their spiritual connection with the land.

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