Malayology

The Malaiologie ( "Malays Customer") or Indonesistik is a scientific field , one of the cultural sciences and deals with the philology and cultures of the peoples of the Malay cultural area, which now states Indonesia , Malaysia , Brunei Darussalam and the city-state of Singapore has.

The focus of the department is the research into the language Indonesian and the closely related language Malay . Malayology is a branch of Austronesian Studies , which deals with the Austronesian languages, which are primarily native to the Pacific region, as well as Southeast Asian Studies , which covers the entire geographic area of ​​the region.

See also

List of people from Indonesian studies

literature

• Bernd Nothofer , Karl-Heinz Pampus (Ed.): The German Malayology. Festschrift in honor of Professor Dr. Irene Hilgers-Hesse . Groos, Heidelberg 1988, ISBN 3-87276-608-2 .