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Indonesian was elevated to the status of official language with the Indonesian declaration of independence in 1945, drawing inspiration from the Sumpah Pemuda ( Youth's Oath ) event in 1928.

Indonesian ( in its standard form ) is essentially the same language as the official Malaysian and Brunei standards of Malay.

However, it does differ from Malaysian in several aspects, with differences in pronunciation and vocabulary.

These differences are due mainly to the Dutch and Javanese influences on Indonesian.

Indonesian was also influenced by the " bazaar Malay " that was the lingua franca of the archipelago in colonial times, and thus indirectly by other spoken languages of the islands.

Malaysian Malay claims to be closer to the classical Malay of earlier centuries even though modern Malaysian has been heavily influenced, in lexicon as well as in syntax, by English.

The question of whether High Malay ( Court Malay ) or Low Malay ( Bazaar Malay ) was the true parent of the Indonesian language is still in debate.

High Malay was the official language used in the court of the Johor Sultanate and continued by the Dutch-administered territory of Riau-Lingga, while Low Malay was commonly used in marketplaces and ports in archipelago.

Some linguists have argued that it was the more-common Low Malay that formed the base of the Indonesian language.