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decode | 7 years ago
No grammatical gender
No plural forms of nouns
No grammatical case
No verb conjugations
No verb tenses
In addition, written Indonesian uses the Latin alphabet and has a very consistent phonemic orthography.
Of course, it also has some more complicated features, like formal and informal pronouns. But it still seems fair to me to say that it is grammatically simpler than many (most?) other spoken languages.
tikwidd|7 years ago
Indonesian verbs lack the tense, number and person agreement marking that is commonly found in European languages, but they have a lot of derivational morphology including complex voice and valency operations (Austronesian alignment[0], causatives, applicatives etc.)
Indonesian also has noun classifiers like Mandarin which have to be memorised like grammatical genders.
[0]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austronesian_alignment
perlancar3|7 years ago