Indonesian Languages (Cont)

Part 2

Alphabets      Pronunciation                                    Example                  Meaning
A                        car                                                              aku                             I (informal)

B                        bar                                                               bola                            ball

C                        cheese, but softer, as in Italian ci, ce   cinta                            love

D                        day                                                                dua                            two

E                        an opened one: French les (è)                   nenek                       grandma
                          a semi-opened one: end (é)                       elang                         hawk
                           a closed one: opened                                  embun                      dew

F                        fun                                                               foto                             photo

G                       good                                                             gadis                           girl

H                        hard, hush                                                 hotel                            hotel

I                         film                                                             ikan                                 fish

J                       judge (Arabic ج)                                         janji                             promise, to promise

K                      kind                                                               kata                              word

L                       law                                                              lampu                           lamp

M                      mother                                                       mimpi                           dream, to dream

N                      new                                                                novel                          novel

O                     an opened one: of, ball (ò)                       omong                            to say (informal)
                        (as in Arabic ر,ق)
                       A closed one: old (ó)                                  orang                                 man, people

P                     pure                                                           pandai, pintar                   clever

Q                    quality                                                       Qoran                                The Koran

R                     trilled like Italian, Spanish r,                  rumah                              house
                        like rrrrrrrrright :D (Arabic ر)

S                      sand                                                                 surat                             letter

T                      time

U                       good, blue                                                  uang                             money

V                        viva                                                            voli                                 volley

W                       hard one: wave                                        wafat                           to die (polite)
                          soft one: swing                                          waktu                           time

X                      extreme                                                       xerofit                           xerofit   

Y                     hard one: you, yard                                    yunior                             junior
                        soft one: sounds like long ee                      yatim                            kid who does not                                                                                                                                      have father

                        (Arabic ي)

Z                     zorro, not like Italian z (tz),                          zigot                              zygot
                       but like bee sound zzzz :D (Arabic ز)

Source: Indo-European Languages