According to the history, Bahasa Betawi is known as batavia, betawi malay, Jakarta Malay and Melayu Jakarta. For hundred years ago, this language already developed and it has been used widely by many people. This language is becoming the most widely-spoken and the most actively used by other people in Indonesia. Based on the history, many countries influenced the creation process of Bahasa Betawi. Most of them came to Jayakarta or Batavia or DKI Jakarta to trade and do some business.  Historically, Bahasa Betawi is mixing of other language from China, Gujarat or India, Arabic, Dutch and Portuguese and there are no native speaker. Recently, many people use this language and it has already become a popular language that can be used in our daily life.

Based on dialect, Bahasa Betawi is divided into two dialect groups "Betawi Kota" and "Betawi Ora". Betawi Kota is coming from the middle side of Jakarta and Betawi Ora is coming from the side area of Jakarta. In terms of tone and  politeness, Betawi Kota is more polite than Betawi Ora. Betawi Kota uses mostly using "ane" "ente" "aye" as "I". Meanwhile, Betawi Ora frequently uses "Guwe", "Lu". Furthermore, Betawi Kota always changes the phoneme /a/ to /e/ and for Betawi Ora changes the phoneme /a/ to /a'/ but with higher tone and more emphasized in the end. Recently, Betawinese still speak their language but not as frequently as older generation. In the end, it is not easy to differentiate bahasa betawi from our national language.

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