/lit/ - Literature

>>13177722
Indonesian and Javanese

Indonesian- literally nothing of value. I am not joking even once- this is one of the worst excuses for a language in the world. Indonesian/malay is an ugly mutt of an austronesian language, Dutch, Arabic and English with a tiny vocabulary of not very specific words and no high quality literary tradition. Where I live, the language spoken nowadays consists of 50% misused english words that people use to try to show off (imagine an american using poorly pronounced french as 50% of their speech "je nay say kwah on peteet puh amiright?") it's disgusting.

Javanese- nothing good that's modern but there's GOAT old texts, although none of them are read by regular people and are literally still only available in scanned manuscript form. The old language is a lot closer to sanskrit and nowadays fewer and fewer people can speak it, much less read it off manuscripts.