bahasa gaul
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Indonesian
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Etymology
[edit]bahasa (“language”) + gaul (“friendship, socialisation”).
Noun
[edit]- (linguistics) slang,
- language outside of conventional usage and in the informal register,
- the specialized language of a social group, sometimes used to make what is said unintelligible to those not members of the group.
Further reading
[edit]- “bahasa gaul” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.