Bahasa Indonesia dan Bahasa Korea: Dua Model Menuju Bahasa internasional

Abstract

The Government and the National Assembly of Portugal have, recently, revised 2,000 of the 110,000 important native words to help promote the globalization of Portuguese. Three fourth of the revised words were also changed to follow the Brazilian Portuguese rules of spelling instead of the European Portuguese for this very reason. The eight Portuguese Speaking Countries (PSC), with approximately two hundred million speakers, have decided to use the Brazilian Portuguese over the traditional European Portuguese due to the rising power and influence of Brazil in the international market. It is their hope that this will increase the possibility of making Portuguese an international language. Portugal has determined not to insist on the name of its country to pursue Portuguese in becoming an official language of the United Nations. Korea and Indonesia have also been putting their efforts in placing their languages in the ranking of becoming global languages. Indonesia is the most influential nation of the Malay World, which includes the archipelago of Malay, Brunei Darussalam, Singapore, southern part of Thailand, the Mindanao Philippines, and a big part of Madagascar. It is also located at the heart of these Melayu (language) speaking nations. The Melayu language was once an international language of the Silk Voyage Era during the 12th to 14th century of the Middle Ages. The language was also debated whether it was appropriate to become an official language of the ASEAN in the early 1990's. The Korean language, on the other hand, has a relatively small population of speakers. However, it is considered to be an important language and is therefore taught as a second language in China and Japan. Korean is also showing some sparks of possibility in becoming a global language due to the ‘Korean Wave’ and the ‘Wave on Korean studies’ phenomena that have been observed since the 1990's. The major reason, that Portugal yielded the position of global language to Brazil that once was their colony, that Indonesia failed to achieve Indonesian a global language despite the enormous number of speakers, or that Korea makes her effort to place Korean in the global languages rank, is the rise of the economic competition following the ideology competition. Therefore, if the economic position of Indonesia and Korea improves more than before, developing Korean and Indonesian into global/international languages can be a very reasonable hope.