The Chinese loanwords are usually concerned with cuisine, trade or often just exclusively things Chinese. According to the 2000
census
A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating information about the members of a given population. This term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common censuses incl ...
, the relative number of people of
Chinese descent in Indonesia (termed the ''peranakan'') is almost 1% (totaling to about 3 million people, although this may likely be an underestimate due to an anti-Chinese sentiment that exists in some circles of the population), yet the ''peranakan'' are the most successful when it comes to business, trade, and cuisine. Words of Chinese origin (presented here with accompanying Hokkien/ Mandarin pronunciation derivatives as well as traditional and simplified characters) include ''pisau'' (匕首 bǐshǒu – knife), ''mie'' (
T:麵,
S:面, Hokkien mī – noodles), ''
lumpia'' (潤餅 (Hokkien = lūn-piáⁿ) – springroll), ''teko'' (
T:茶壺,
S:茶壶 = cháhú
andarin teh-ko
okkien= teapot), 苦力 kuli = 苦 khu (bitter) and 力 li (energy) and even the widely used slang terms ''gua'' and ''lu'' (or ''gue'' and ''lo'') (from the Hokkien 'goa' 我 and 'lu/li' 你 – meaning 'I/ me' and 'you'). Almost all loanwords in Indonesian of Chinese origin come from
Hokkien
The Hokkien () variety of Chinese is a Southern Min language native to and originating from the Minnan region, where it is widely spoken in the south-eastern part of Fujian in southeastern mainland China. It is one of the national languages in ...
(福建) or
Hakka
The Hakka (), sometimes also referred to as Hakka Han, or Hakka Chinese, or Hakkas are a Han Chinese subgroup whose ancestral homes are chiefly in the Hakka-speaking provincial areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangxi, Guangxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Zhej ...
(客家).
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Bibliography
* Badudu, J.S; Kamus Kata-kata Serapan Asing Dalam Bahasa Indonesia; Kompas, Jakarta, 2003
* ''Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia'', Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Jakarta, Balai Pustaka: 1999, halaman 1185 s.d. 1188 berisikan Pendahuluan buku ''Senarai Kata Serapan dalam Bahasa Indonesia'', Departemen Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, Jakarta, 1996 (dengan sedikit penyaduran tanpa mengubah maksud dan tujuan seseungguhnya dari buku ini).
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